Mars Rover
Mike,
A panorama of Endurance crater by rover Opportunity that will stretch your 34-inch monitor.
BTW, Beth and I heard a talk by the chief mechanical engineer of the Mars rover program last Friday. His enthusiasm was infective. Now I keep checking on those rovers just to see what they’re up to.
Ed
The first monitor on the left is on loan from Adam.
Talk about jaded. We all are. Otherwise there’d be far more publicity about those robots that won’t die. And that crater photo makes my stomach flip. That’s Mars for gods sake. Do you have to be our age to find that mind-boggling?
Comment by michael — February 9, 2006 @ 7:53 pm
Ain’t technology GRAND!!! Your G5’ll drive 3 monitors simultaneously — TOO cool … But attention to detail, MIkey — a few books under the middle and left monitor and you’d’ve had a true panorama!
Comment by freak — February 9, 2006 @ 10:54 pm
Well, obviously, but why does it do that? rakkity, any thoughts?
Comment by michael — February 10, 2006 @ 6:43 am
Why does it do that vertical offset? You’re asking me?
I only have one monitor, so I can only guess. Maybe the software is using a module that displays multiple windows on one screen, and it provides a shift so the windows aren’t coincident. The module isn’t being told that the windowa are on 3 different monitors. Its an OS X bug. Complain to Apple.
Comment by rakkity — February 10, 2006 @ 10:28 am
Amazing panaroma! Looks cool across my two wide-aspect LCD displays (at 1680×1050 and 1920×1200).
The image offsets across your 3 monitors is due to the geometry differences in their pixel size. (Same thing happens on my two displays, even when set to the same resolution).
The Apple display on the left has the smallest pixels, and their size increases to the right — hence less photo area displayed progressively.
Comment by smiling Dan — February 11, 2006 @ 8:54 am