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360 degree photo
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:06 pm
by Howard547
I design realestate websites, and I was thinking that it would be a good idea to have 360 degree video things which will let the user look around the room.
example:
http://www.vrguild.net/c/stnd.pl?U=0307192132176524
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:23 pm
by JAM
Your right.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:56 pm
by Unipus
Sure. Go for it.
Best ones you'll find are at
http://www.panoramas.dk
Look in the "full screen archive" on the right side of the page.
How do I get a 360 degree photo
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:20 pm
by Howard547
I forgot to ask my question above. How do I take the 360 degree photo?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:32 pm
by qads
u just take 4 photos i guess
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 10:29 pm
by trollll
Officially, you have a special camera mounted on a tripod that rotates on a timed motor. Unofficially, you can fake it with a regular dv, load the optimized movie into flash and script it. I've seen it done the real way (oh, those dot-com days!) and I've mickey-moused it myself for apartment shots. You could probably find a few places online close by to get quotes from (depending on your location), and then decide if the extra quality seems worth it as supposed to the extra time to do it yourself.
Actually, I think you could even find applications online to help you get the video to line up just right.
As for taking four photos, that would only work with a couple days spent in photoshop because of the lighting and angle differences (tried that first...). You'd need to have subtle gradient masks to cover the light differences and then distort the edges quite a bit to make it seem like a continual shot.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:02 am
by JayBird
Actually, for better results, you need at least 8 photos, because you need the pistures to overlap, which you can't do with 4 pictures.
Get any digital camera and set it up on a tri-pod. You'll need a tri-pod where you can set the camera to rotate excatly a certain number of degrees after each photo.
Once all your shots are taken, i use Quicktime VR Authoring Studio - only available for Mac but is definatley the best!
Import all your pictures in the correct sequence, then you can actually watch the software normalize the lighting, "stitch" the photos together automatically and warp the images onto the inside of a sphere. It gets it about 95% right most of the time, but you can manually tweak the position of each segment if neccessary.
Thats it! You can then ad hotspots in your scene for people to click on and take them to a webpage, play a sound etc.
For the software, look here
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtvr/authoringstudio/
Mark
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:26 pm
by phice
That's not the way we did it.
You just set up a camera on a tripod, take a picture every 30* or so, until you get around to the other side. Take a "stitching" software to stitch the photos together, and you've got yourself a 360* photo.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:48 pm
by mr_griff
Does anyone know of an open source solution for making 360 degree photos?
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:03 pm
by Unipus
Well, you can do it manually in Photoshop or the like... sort of a pain in the ass, though.
Once all your shots are taken, i use Quicktime VR Authoring Studio - only available for Mac but is definatley the best!
I think you'd probably find Realviz Stitcher to be superior. Although, not free - or cheap.