This is the cute cousin of the regular wasp. It has a thin waist that lets it curl its abdomen forward and precisely sting its prey right in the nerve, paralyzing it without killing it. These little neurological surgeons don’t use their stinger for defense, but as a surgical tool. They can carry prey often larger than themselves back to their nests, powered by their huge flight muscles. Their mandibles are strong too, not for eating but for digging holes into wood where they lay their eggs. Each egg gets a paralyzed insect placed beside it as fresh food for the larva. Adults, meanwhile, mostly sip on nectar.
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danylyon 2d ago
@simon. Great question! That is a workflow I tried and might revisit. The issue is instead of aligned 111 photos, you'd have 1776 photos, even if you matched only relevant photos, that would still take very long for the SfM and some might not track at all.
Masking the blurry areas is easier said than done. As far as I know there is no good algorithm that gives you the area in focus, doing this with some edge detect filters is not good enough. Any stacking software uses quite sophisticated algorithms to blend the images together. Your best bet would be to extract the masks from a stacking software.. but because they also align the images, it is also not very straight forward.
simonbethke 2d ago
I was wondering if there is any chance to run a test with your source photos. I would like to know if it is possible to align the photos before focus stacking. And then mask the blurry areas before training.
yakov-snap 3d ago
I now learn more here on SuperSplat than at my university ))
slimbuck 3d ago
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