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Gigapan is a kind of global connection projects through gigapixel photos and online communities like Microsoft's Photosynth. Gigapan project was desinged by Carnegie Mellon University, NASA/Ames Research Center, Google Corporation. Recently, they announced the beta version of Gigapan robot which enables a ordinary digital camera to take a giga-pixel photo.
Their ultimate goal is to bridge cultural divides by contributing to a global network of community images.
Digital Game Research Association(DiGra), a notable international video game research association, announced that their 4th biennial conference will be held in London on September 4th, 2009. Also, they announced the first call for papers for the conference.
Detaild information of the call for papers is as follows:
The South of Britain Consortium are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for the Digital Games Research Association 2009. DiGRA is an organisation that embraces all aspects of game studies, and the conference aims to provide a diverse platform for discussion, and a lively forum for debate. We therefore welcome papers from any discipline focused on any aspect of games, play, game culture and the games industry. The conference will be the fourth DiGRA conference, following Utrecht, Vancouver and Tokyo, and welcomes contributions from scholars working in any area of interest to the association. The official business of the Subject Association will also be conducted at the conference.
The Conference invites the following proposals for consideration:
Individual or Collaborative Papers
Panels
Workshops
Posters
Graduate Student Roundtable Papers
Initial selection will be through the peer review of abstracts of 500-700 words in all categories. Panel and Workshop proposals should include abstracts for the contributions of all participants.
A mail from a little boy of the world
I made Los Angeles in my world
Rendered images:
Playblast vidoe (not rendered):
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