• Pittsburgh Public Art archive maps murals with yellow pins, enabling easy location search. • Archive offers ultra‑high‑res images via Gigapan, letting users zoom into fine details. • Created by CMU CREATE Lab, Gigapan captures evolving city murals over time. • Richard Palmer, a Pittsburgh native, documents public art for five years. • Palmer’s partnership with CREATE Lab began after a creative poem outreach. • The archive preserves murals digitally, preventing loss of cultural heritage.
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- Pittsburgh native Richard Palmer has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab to preserve the city’s public murals through a digital archive. Using the lab’s Gigapan robotic panoramic system, Palmer captures ultra‑high‑resolution images that can be zoomed in to reveal fine details, creating a dynamic record of the city’s evolving visual landscape. The archive, hosted on the CREATE Lab website, offers a searchable, high‑resolution view of murals and large‑scale artwork across neighborhoods. Palmer’s collaboration began in 2007 and has expanded to training researchers in other disciplines, demonstrating Gigapan’s utility for environmental monitoring and public outreach.
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