There is a Microsoft research product for making panorama photos from a
sequence of individual stills. I used it to stitch together a bunch of
pics I took in Ecuador and they came out very nicely. Very simple to
use, basically you just select your photos in the pkg and it does its
magic and out comes a panorama. I had not used it before, but
remembered I had read about it, so I made a point to take a bunch of
sequences by "rotating" my camera around and taking 4-6 images, then
when I got home I downloaded it and played with it a bit.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Uses
digital images, would probably be better to use a tripod to take them
but hand-held worked fine. The initial output shows the irregularity
but you can crop it automatically and it comes out really well.
That is Lago Cuicocha, a caldera lake at 11000ft. Amazingly beautiful.
The 360 photos are pretty neat, there are some special lenses for doing
that, and some software for displaying them. I just saw some new 3D VR
glasses that were shown at CES, will display HD images and have built-in
motion sensors. Imagine a 360deg movie in 3DHD!
I have also made some stereo photos and built a stereopticon to look at
them (and a slide thingie to put on a tripod to get the photos shot with
the right separation), using a free program StereoPhoto Maker a
Japanese guy has been developing. They are very cool too, and quite
easy to do just by printing the images using the program. You can't do
moving things with just one camera but for stills the images are really
something. (Little digital cams are so cheap these days, I might try to
make one with 2 cams and a simultaneous trigger -- hmmmm I actually have
2 old low-end ones sitting right here). You can buy the lenses cheaply
for the viewer, just a few dollars if I recall, and a bit of basic
woodworking will get you a serviceable viewer and the slider.
Anyway, some fun cheap diversions to make some enjoyable pics.
--R
andrew strasfogel wrote:
That is, like, WOW!
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, <relng...@aol.com> wrote:
Unbelievable photography viewed with sophisticated 360 degree technology
Click and hold your mouse to move a picture around.
If you click and hold near the left side of a photo it will pan left, same
for up or down, or right.
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