Microscopic Scanning Pipeline

The Microscopic Scanning Pipeline was the culminative project in the course Experimental Capture. In this piece, I was attempting to create a super-high fidelity scan of an object by taking a series of 1080p images and stitching them together with panorama software. I landed on Gigapan Stitch for it's desktop client, publishing, and hosting of large images.

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My pipeline used an Axi-Draw pen plotter with realtime control from Processing in order to take microscopic photographs at regular intervals across a sample up to 4 inches. The code controlling the axi-draw was made with the help of Golan Levin and Angelica Bonilla-Fominalla. After Scanning, the images would be stitched with the Gigapan Stitch Desktop client, where their ordering has to be input row-by-by row. The largest task of this was to reorder the capture of these images to match the expectations of Gigapan.