Fisheye
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henri_smeets
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Sure, if there existed a square fisheye lense and a very precise panoramic head (not a bad idea come to think of it 
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So unfortunately you'll have to use a regular fisheye take at least two shots (with a 180+ circular view) and stitch those into a so called equirectangular image which than can be made into cubefaces. Be sure to check out sites like panoguide.com
PS, welcome to the forum and good luck!
)So unfortunately you'll have to use a regular fisheye take at least two shots (with a 180+ circular view) and stitch those into a so called equirectangular image which than can be made into cubefaces. Be sure to check out sites like panoguide.com
PS, welcome to the forum and good luck!
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360Texas
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Hi, welcome to the forum
This is a mix of techniques but you really do not have to have a fisheye lens to make a Pano2VR 360 horizon x 180 vertical field of view panorama.
Last World Wide Panorama we decided to create a panorama using 6 sides if a 5000 wide x 2500 high flat canvas graphic file.
In photoshop create a new file that is 5000 x 2500. That will give you a flat rectangular canvas. Keep in mind that on the horizon or the middle (50% down from the canvas top) is the horizon. Any overlay image say of real people will be best displayed on this horizon line. If you place more smaller single images above or below this horizon the more barrel distorted it will be when viewed in a spherical viewer like Pano2VR Flash.
Knowing that all you need to do is use a 5k x 2.5kb flat rectangular image.. and use Pano2VR to make the spherical .swf well, Its better if you just see the end results
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... index.html
3 creations can be viewered here
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... right.html
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... right.html
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... pseed.html
This is a mix of techniques but you really do not have to have a fisheye lens to make a Pano2VR 360 horizon x 180 vertical field of view panorama.
Last World Wide Panorama we decided to create a panorama using 6 sides if a 5000 wide x 2500 high flat canvas graphic file.
In photoshop create a new file that is 5000 x 2500. That will give you a flat rectangular canvas. Keep in mind that on the horizon or the middle (50% down from the canvas top) is the horizon. Any overlay image say of real people will be best displayed on this horizon line. If you place more smaller single images above or below this horizon the more barrel distorted it will be when viewed in a spherical viewer like Pano2VR Flash.
Knowing that all you need to do is use a 5k x 2.5kb flat rectangular image.. and use Pano2VR to make the spherical .swf well, Its better if you just see the end results
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... index.html
3 creations can be viewered here
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... right.html
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... right.html
http://www.worldwidepanorama.org/worldw ... pseed.html
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360Texas
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Hmm no actually not. You would need to use your fisheye lens to take 4 images at 90 degrees to insure that you had sufficient overlap between adjacent image sets. Then use PTGUI software to stitch these 4 images together and create a 2:1 like 5000 pixels wide by 2500 pixels high rectangular image. THEN he wrote.. you can take that image into Pano2VR and convert that flat image to a full 360 degree on the horizon by 180 degree vertical field of view spherical type .swf or .mov image. Assuming all is done to perfection, it will be suitable for display on your website server.
Hope that was not too complicated... because it is technical. You need the proper panorama lens and hardware to make it all work.
If you do not have a fisheye lens.. you can still create a full spherical panorama... made from single frame images overlayed on a 2:1 background [5000 x 2500 pixel background] graphic image using Pano2VR software.
I think we ARE having fun now !!!
Hope that was not too complicated... because it is technical. You need the proper panorama lens and hardware to make it all work.
If you do not have a fisheye lens.. you can still create a full spherical panorama... made from single frame images overlayed on a 2:1 background [5000 x 2500 pixel background] graphic image using Pano2VR software.
I think we ARE having fun now !!!
