Don't think Big Brother is here? Check this out

tech3149

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Sun Nov-21-04 06:44 PM
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Don't think Big Brother is here? Check this out

http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm

If you check out the cars, you'll see this is the UK, but don't think for a second that the same technology isn't available and used all around the world.

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unblock

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Sun Nov-21-04 06:48 PM
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1. cool, you can see license plates!

i mean, scary, you can see license plates!

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captain disgruntled

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Sun Nov-21-04 06:52 PM
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3. I feel like Matt Damon...

too bad I don't look like him.

Um, the "nl" and the "delft" in the URL identify this as being the Netherlands, not the UK.

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tech3149

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Mon Nov-22-04 06:19 PM
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9. Sorry, I didn't look that closely

my bad

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purduejake

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Sun Nov-21-04 06:48 PM
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2. whoa... that is awesome, but scary.

It looks like a view from the top of a building, though.

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flvegan

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Sun Nov-21-04 06:54 PM
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4. Yawn. We had recognition software and cameras installed

here in Tampa some time ago. It'd pick out "likelies" from a crowd (they were installed in our nightspot area, Ybor City). I do believe they've since trashed it.

You haven't lived BB until you've been facially scanned to match a felon list.

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L84TEA

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Sun Nov-21-04 06:58 PM
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5. the pic doesn't change tho...

I dont get it.

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unblock

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Sun Nov-21-04 09:03 PM
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7. it's a still, the point is just how clear it is when you zoom in.

zoom in, give it a moment to repixelate, and you can see very clearly

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jimshoes

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Sun Nov-21-04 07:11 PM
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6. If you zoom in on the church steeple

Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 07:11 PM by jimshoes

way in the distance, you can see this picture was snapped at 3:05 their time.

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bloom

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Sun Nov-21-04 09:37 PM
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8. I hear Chicago is going to put cameras all around... eom

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Oeditpus Rex

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Mon Nov-22-04 06:43 PM
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10. Y'know all those movies in which they

had the computer geek zoom in on a photo like 10,000x and it was still razor-sharp, and you holler "No freakin' WAY, dude"? Guess we can't holler that anymore.

I shudder to think what Arschkropft would do with this.

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Greyskye

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Mon Nov-22-04 07:05 PM
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11. This is a mosaic of pictures stitched together

I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I found one spot where there is a clear 'line' between two pictures. It would not have stuck out too much, except there is one wheel of a bicycle rolling along.

Here's the pic, since it would be a little difficult to describe exactly where I zoomed in to see this:

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Greyskye

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Mon Nov-22-04 07:33 PM
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12. tech details

I got curious about how this was done, and found some more details. This picture is comprised of 600 different photos, all merged together.

Here are some other 'anomalies' caused by the method of creating this picture. Here is a car merged into a bus: http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite1051.html

And here is a floating torso:
http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite1050.html

These were on this main page, which explains some of the technical details: http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite591.html

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