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Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography
- trhway 3y agoas drones are illegal in many places and are just targetted on the battlefield like in Ukraine, I wonder when we are going to get drones looking (and with time more and more behaving) like a bird.
- ttt11199907 3y agoI hope not. Imagine how devastating conflict already is to the environment. Now make every bird shoot on sight, just in case. I guess ravens really are the dark one's eyes and ears!
- xeonmc 3y agoOr what if they made guided missiles out of pigeons?
- wtracy 3y agoStranger things have been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
- eric-burel 3y agoThe See Also section is a huge rabbit hole it will take me days to review all this litterature around bomb bearing animals
- hyperific 3y agoNow we just need a Prodigy - Smack My B Up pigeon parody https://youtu.be/J1zYF0cejmg?si=3fIDDy19l1Pp7YRh https://youtu.be/J1zYF0cejmg?si=3fIDDy19l1Pp7YRh
- ksaj 3y agoI have a pet pigeon. My partner wants to do some sort of a lifestyle video of him with little miniature kitchen, living room, etc. Sorta like Martha Stewart, only with a black carrier pigeon. He comes running when called, and he really likes bossing the dogs around, so I think we could actually do something like this.
- thekid314 3y agoJust wait until you get this ear-worm into your ear. I'm probably 25 of the 27 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3x7KhsZOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3x7KhsZOY
- qwertox 3y agoRelated: Some very old pigeon photography in a scrollable story from Google Arts & Culture https://artsandculture.google.com/story/julius-neubronner-and-his-flying-photographers/mQLCawGRQxy5LQ?hl=en https://artsandculture.google.com/story/julius-neubronner-an... I appended `?hl=en` to force the selection of the English language, you may want to remove it (it ignores `fr` or `es`, but it is available in German).
- imagetic 3y agoDavid Degner! What a legend.
- thekid314 3y agoHey! I know who this is! It has been too long. Call me up if you come to NYC!
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- troupe 3y agoIn addition to spy photography, pigeons were being trained to guide missiles at one point by pecking on a screen. Project Orcon (for ORganic CONtrol) was the name of the program. It doesn't appear to have been used for any actual bombings. The trainers said their biggest issue was just getting people to take them seriously. The project was canceled as electronic controls became available.
- kopirgan 3y agoVery interesting but to be pigeon's perspective the eye of the camera should have same resolution, color sensitivity, depth etc of a pigeon. If not it is just another drone shot.
- Brajeshwar 3y agoBrilliant, this is giving me ideas. Growing up, I built multiple pigeon nest to house them around the houses in my hometown and I remember feeding them, and making up my own stories. I think, I sold them for religious ceremonies but I'm sure they comes back to the same homes later. Now, why shouldn't I start a Pigeon photography/videography thingy and scan the entire town. No need for drones, no nothing, just pigeons with wi-fi-ed cameras that offloads the content as they comes back home every evening. Ah! That's my hyperspectral imagery source to train the ML-pipelines. What if LIDARs become cheap enough to be fitted on the pigeons? Now, that would be super interesting.
- thekid314 3y agoConsumer tech has improved so we can attach cameras to pigeons again once again.
- abricot 3y agoI guess that bird could be spying on you. Jokes aside, this is natural drone photography. I can imagine you would be even more successful with targeted photography from a trained bird.
- thekid314 3y agoYeah, the targeted photography is my next step. I live in Brooklyn, and my pigeon raising friend lives in Jersey, so if we release the bird from the right place in Brooklyn we should be able to get some interesting photos of Manhattan.