Hi Yuv, yep, it actually goes to a shifted sphere first. Am tidying the mathmap implementation and will post a message when it is ready,
Peter. From: Yuval Levy <goo...@levy.ch> Subject: [hugin-ptx] Re: Generalised stereographic projections Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:12:42 -0500 > > Hi Peter, > > sorry I am getting in late on this thread - got plenty of backlog to > process in my in-box. > > Peter Gawthrop wrote: > > I have been playing with generalisations of the stereographic > > projection. Given a "view sphere" of a 360 panorama, the basic idea > > is the float around inside that sphere and then project on to either > > a plane or a cylinder. > > and how about a sphere again? > > > > Conventional perspective comes from > > projecting from the centre of the sphere, and stereographic from the > > back, onto a plane. This projection allows projection from anywhere > > in the sphere in any (meaningful) direction. > > > > First tries at using this at > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawthrop/sets/72157614419442162/ > > > > At the moment, it's a mathmap implementation. But I would like to > > think about putting it in hugin and/or panini. Note that, unlike the > > Panini projection, the aim is to distort - albeit in a meaningful way. > > > > Comments&suggestions appreciated. > > beautiful, and I think *very* useful too. Is the mathmap implementation > available for playing somewhere? > > Yuv > > > > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
