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Extreme Panorama

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,642 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    my favorite quicktime VR panorama - go for the fullscreen option:
    http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp304/html/DouglasCape.html

    and browse the rest of the site, there are hundreds there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    I want one of those cameras :eek:
    It'd be super-nice to have as your desktop background... rotating slowly.
    It's just a pity they aren't that high res, that you could zoom all the way into distant objects... like in that 'largest digital photo in the world' pic.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,642 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    I want one of those cameras :eek:
    they're usually multiple shots from a normal digital camera, stitched together.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭digitalage


    These are easy to do, all you need is a panoramic head and stitching software that out puts the results as quicktime, realviz stitcher 5.1 is good.

    www.realviz.com


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    they're usually multiple shots from a normal digital camera, stitched together.
    I was thinking something more along the lines of these.
    Those panoramas seem way too good to be some manual stitching job with a normal camera.
    I know this software has been around for eons, but those results are fantastic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,513 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I was thinking something more along the lines of these.
    Those panoramas seem way too good to be some manual stitching job with a normal camera.
    I agree, they're far too good to be stitched .. for example, look at the way there aren't any 'ghosts' from the people on the London Eye one. You'd have to take dozens of overlapping shots to do it by stitching, and the chance of getting everyone perfectly still for that time would be zero, not to mention that the thing is moving all the time, albeit slowly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Nice find, been up on the London Eye, many many times when I lived in London. I would like to see some shots later in the evening but those are really good.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,642 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Alun wrote:
    I agree, they're far too good to be stitched .. for example, look at the way there aren't any 'ghosts' from the people on the London Eye one. You'd have to take dozens of overlapping shots to do it by stitching, and the chance of getting everyone perfectly still for that time would be zero, not to mention that the thing is moving all the time, albeit slowly.
    one thing i saw was the unusual bend in the frame of the capsule, just to the left of the capsule beside it and above it. also, is that a hill behind where the chap with the video camera is standing, or evidence that the photographer used him to hide mismatching horizons?
    there also looks like a stitch in the frame of the capsule above the BT tower.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,513 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    one thing i saw was the unusual bend in the frame of the capsule, just to the left of the capsule beside it and above it. also, is that a hill behind where the chap with the video camera is standing, or evidence that the photographer used him to hide mismatching horizons?
    there also looks like a stitch in the frame of the capsule above the BT tower.
    Well, even with some magic super fast panorama camera like the panoscan linked to above, it has to do at least one join somewhere, I suppose. The trick is ensuring that the join is somewhere where it will be least noticed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭digitalage


    Lads these can be easily done with a panoramic head and software such as realviz, to get rid of ghosting effects you export the file as a *.psd to photoshop then mask out the "ghost" from the frames as required. Heres a link that explains a run through scenario.

    http://www.panomundo.com/panos/howto/index.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Alun wrote:
    I agree, they're far too good to be stitched ..

    They are stitched. I will find the link to the programme that does it and gives examples of how its done, pretty impressive indeed


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