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August 23, 2004

Graphics at the 2004 Olympics

I was watching the diving events and saw a cool technology called DiveMotion. It's an imaging system that superimposes time-lapsed snapshots of a diver in freefall. Several of these composites are superimposed to show differences between divers.

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Posted by Devon at August 23, 2004 10:44 PM

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Aha, I found your secret robot!
I wonder how automated that technology is. They could be doing cool stuff with automatic segmenetation. Do you know how quickly they can put a DiveMotion shot together? It would have to be automated if they do it quickly.
BTW, they're using the same stuff for Trampoline. Crazy; they showed one woman doing the same routine twice, almost exactly the same.

(BTW, something isn't happy when I try to sign in to use TypeKey. The message said that I should inform you, that you weren't registered to use TypeKey.)

Posted by: sascha becker at August 25, 2004 05:50 PM

I scoured the web doing the fact-checking thing, but word is apparently mum on the algorithm. My guess is that the camera is mechanically panned and the results are post-processed to separate foreground/background layers. Probably uses motion compensation similar to a remote sensing satellite to patch the background shots together.

Thanks for pointing out the comments bug. Since you're my first commenter, you've earned the title of "all-time most helpful commenter on my blog" :)

Posted by: Devon at August 25, 2004 08:20 PM

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