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360° panoramic photos
Thought this might be of interest.
Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html |
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Leo wrote:
Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... |
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Leo wrote:
Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... |
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Glen A Stromquist writes:
Leo wrote: Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? Kinda hard to do with video, or with still photography of anything that moves. I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... Well, it should be possible to resample everything to get the geometry fixed up, but the resolution will be that of a single image. Less, in fact, and it will vary across the image. There are uses for this device, and uses for stitched panoramas. -- -Stephen H. Westin Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors. |
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Glen A Stromquist writes:
Leo wrote: Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? Kinda hard to do with video, or with still photography of anything that moves. I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... Well, it should be possible to resample everything to get the geometry fixed up, but the resolution will be that of a single image. Less, in fact, and it will vary across the image. There are uses for this device, and uses for stitched panoramas. -- -Stephen H. Westin Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors. |
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Glen A Stromquist wrote:
Leo wrote: Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? I agree with you on that. I recently got ArcSoft Panorama Maker 3 for under $20, and it does this very easily. I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... Also, the resolution of a single image will be much less than having several frames to stitch together. I wonder if they sell many of these. The only thing more expensive is a Seitz Roundshot. Ciao! Gordon Moat A G Studio http://www.allgstudio.com/gallery.html Updated! |
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Glen A Stromquist wrote:
Leo wrote: Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? I agree with you on that. I recently got ArcSoft Panorama Maker 3 for under $20, and it does this very easily. I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... Also, the resolution of a single image will be much less than having several frames to stitch together. I wonder if they sell many of these. The only thing more expensive is a Seitz Roundshot. Ciao! Gordon Moat A G Studio http://www.allgstudio.com/gallery.html Updated! |
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Gordon Moat wrote:
Glen A Stromquist wrote: Leo wrote: Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? I agree with you on that. I recently got ArcSoft Panorama Maker 3 for under $20, and it does this very easily. I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... Also, the resolution of a single image will be much less than having several frames to stitch together. I wonder if they sell many of these. The only thing more expensive is a Seitz Roundshot. Ciao! Gordon Moat A G Studio http://www.allgstudio.com/gallery.html Updated! I guess it all depends on what you want to do, someone mentioned video but I didnt see any mention of that on the page, but perhaps I wasnt looking close enough... In the little image stitching I have done I found there was distortion of sorts at the seams when doing pano's of close objects, like a room or a deck, but for a 360 shot of my yard for example, there was none that was noticeable. In fact with the stiching method a guy can have some fun, in one experiment I had my daughters stand in each frame and wave at the camera, when running the image thru a program like pano2exe it was kinda cool, aka cheep special effects! I also thought about having a 4 frame 360 pano of my home & yard, one frame in each season, but so far havent had the patience to get it started.... cheers |
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Gordon Moat wrote:
Glen A Stromquist wrote: Leo wrote: Thought this might be of interest. Pretty cool way to create 360 degree images. http://www.360imagetech.com/how_it_works.html Pretty cool, but wouldnt it be a lot cheaper to take overlapping images and stich them together with one of the many cheap/free stitching programs out there? I agree with you on that. I recently got ArcSoft Panorama Maker 3 for under $20, and it does this very easily. I would also think there'd be less of the wide-angle distortion as well, but then again you get the distortion where the images are joined anyway... Also, the resolution of a single image will be much less than having several frames to stitch together. I wonder if they sell many of these. The only thing more expensive is a Seitz Roundshot. Ciao! Gordon Moat A G Studio http://www.allgstudio.com/gallery.html Updated! I guess it all depends on what you want to do, someone mentioned video but I didnt see any mention of that on the page, but perhaps I wasnt looking close enough... In the little image stitching I have done I found there was distortion of sorts at the seams when doing pano's of close objects, like a room or a deck, but for a 360 shot of my yard for example, there was none that was noticeable. In fact with the stiching method a guy can have some fun, in one experiment I had my daughters stand in each frame and wave at the camera, when running the image thru a program like pano2exe it was kinda cool, aka cheep special effects! I also thought about having a 4 frame 360 pano of my home & yard, one frame in each season, but so far havent had the patience to get it started.... cheers |
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Gordon Moat writes:
snip Also, the resolution of a single image will be much less than having several frames to stitch together. I wonder if they sell many of these. The only thing more expensive is a Seitz Roundshot. Nah... http://www.spheron.com/products/PanoCam/specs.html About $63K, last I heard. 5300 x 11000 digital output. -- -Stephen H. Westin Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors. |
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