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2009/3/5 <jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Tom Potts writes: > >> On Thursday 05 March 2009 07:52, george wrote: >>> This is a photo from the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. In this photo you >>> will be able to see IN FOCUS the face of each individual in the crowd. >>> You can scan, double click and zoom to any section of the crowd... wait a >>> few seconds... and the focus adjusts. The picture was taken with a >>> robotic camera at 1,474 megapixel. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel >>> camera) >>> http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4 >>>b06233c >> I dont need to see these fawning idiots in detail to feel paranoid! >> Tom te tom te tom >> > ...excuse me for being stupid, who is there that I should be worried about? > Why would the people there cause me to be paranoid? > Jon I took it to be either that the depth of field was greater than should be possible (though people furthest in the crowd are going out of focus), perhaps indicating artificiality. It could be just the technical impressiveness of the resolution - imagine a computer performing facial recognition on the entire crowd. Now suppose it could read facial expressions, and analyze body language and gait to even track people when their faces are not visible. Finally, extend that to tens of thousands of feeds throughout a city which go into a supercomputer, predicting group responses and formulating counter-strategies in real time. Welcome to the wacky world of DARPA's IXO project :( -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html