Garden Gnome Software

Hi,

Has someone experience with a printed 360 wall.
Customer wants for an event a printed cockpit on the wall.
How can that be done?
I think of several rows of images stitched rectilinear in PTGUI?

Frans

Use a 180° angle of view fisheye lens. Stitch a set of 4 on the horizon. Projecting the cockpit as a sphere will when printed to a flat paper will show distortions in the top and bottom part of the print area. Suggest just cropping that area out. Print the center area. Hope the client doesn't need to refer to any instrumentation or flight controls in the cropped area.

For printing use a very wide roll paper 'Plotter' like used for printing construction drawings. You can usually find an Engineering Store that services engineering equipment and printing services.

For a normal wall height say 8 feet (2.5m) high using 3 strips bottom, center, top. OR maybe only 2 strips top and bottom.

LOLLL Better yet.... go ahead and create a cockpit spherical panorama. Use Pano2vr to create a cockpit virtual tour. Display on a VERY LARGE JUMBOTRON LCD TV Touch screen set. OR a computer projector to wall.

Hi
Printing this out will be a hell of a challenge to get sth neatly,
Better to create a rectiliniar image from it and printi it huge size

or as suggested by 360Texas
Use Projector
You can even project into a dome or a circular to make it like real
Depends on your budget but it can be relatively easy done with multi projectors and some software...

Something like this?

I Like

By thinking about it
Another way of creating a good rectilinear printout is by doing a megapixel pano.
All depends on the final print size for best quality.

Dave & Zap thanks for your suggestions.
My customer is not so sure anymore about printing.
He is going to think about it.

@jare Is this done by yourself?


Frans

If you want a single image, consider Panini (Vedutismo) projection as it can show a wide FOV with relatively little distortion

If you want a series of immersive large format print to show a full 360° you could look at several different prints, side by side… as per Jare's example.

Here I printed a series of cube faces to show a full 360° (minus zenith and nadir)

http://blog.anti-limited.com/straight-t ... s-kitchen/

Resolution is key… if you want to print big, shoot high res!

Hi Jobes,
Awesome images. Very nice art work!
Good story too!

Still some questions:
What are the measurements of the pictures?
At what resolution did you hand it over to CPS?
You did shoot it with a 15 mega pixel camera, so with a resolution of about 2736 x 3648?
You did not use Pano2VR, only PTGUI, but what did you have to stitch?
The output of Pano2VR HTML5 generates 2527 x 2527 and have about the same idea of yours? So that should be usable too?

Frans

Rajah wrote:My customer is not so sure anymore about printing.

360Texas wrote:create a cockpit spherical panorama

jobes wrote:if you want to print big, shoot high res!

Printing is often cheaper than painting inside it, I drew inside a 'cockpit' I hand built in 2009 when I reverse engineered a cubic pano in low-fidelity wood...


It is very possible, but resolution is key if making it from large format prints

Hi Chu,

Interesting and confusing whitout 3D glasses

Rajah wrote:Interesting and confusing whitout 3D glasses

Thanks Rajah, but you didn't need them for this version I made.

I made a stereoscopic version in version 2 and 3 though - very difficult, nigh on impossible to photograph for my exacting standards, so there's no digital facsimile.
Bit of a head-fry painting inside it