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by Mark D. Fink
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Ken,
Wow, that got my brain moving! If you had a Coolpix with their fisheye lens
attached, that gives you about 185 fov, right? If you had a particular
location that you wanted to cover TOTALLY, would the following scenario
work?
1. Mount the camera on a motorized platform, pointing forward so that the
platform isn't in the photo.
2. Set up a local GPS system that gives you perhaps centimeter or even
millimeter accuracy. (An engineer friend of mine told me about a site he was
working on where they had a local GPS system set up with several
transmitters and several receivers mounted on a bulldozer. They fed in what
they wanted the topology to be, and the bulldozer automatically adjusted the
pitch and height of the blade.)
3. Drive the platform around the area to be covered, taking photos at
regular intervals in a grid pattern so that you end up with four views taken
at each intersection of the grid.
4. Group the images together based on their local GPS coordinates, which
should give you four fisheye images that you can stitch together.
5. Navigate the final array of panos which should give you a fully immersive
tour.
Mark
www.pinnacle-vr.com
www.northernlight.net
www.360cities.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: PanoToolsNG@... [mailto:PanoToolsNG@...] On
>Behalf Of Ken Warner
>Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:03 PM
>To: PanoToolsNG@...
>Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Buying or not? 360 degree one-shot camera for
>1100 USD
>
>You could do the same thing with a compact camera and a cheap
>fisheye pointed straight up -- if you have a low car. And if
>you don't, you could put one on the front and one on the back and
>sequence the shots so that the back camera moves forward to the
>front camera's old position before the shot.
>
>Or for $1100, you could put 4 of them on your car...
>
>Jan Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am in the process of purchasing a 360 degree one-shot camera.
>> May I ask for your input?
>>
>> Please find a few examples (raw doughnuts and processed panoramas) at:
>>
>> http://mybestprojects.com/examples
>>
>> I'd like to do a kind of Google streetview website and therefore need to
>> take a panos every 1 second.
>>>From rooftop of a moving car, motorbike, bicycle or on foot.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Is this worth 1100 USD?
>>
>> Alternatives (that are robust enough)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>> You will find 3 types of images:
>> -d frame extracted from the video the camera takes: 500-700kb
>> -p jpg pano made from doughnut: 450 kb
>> -sm smaller pano made with 75% setting from jpeg: 90-110 kb
>>
>> Please use the picture numbers for you comments:
>> 1,3,4,6,15,32.
>>
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
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Wow, that got my brain moving! If you had a Coolpix with their fisheye lens
attached, that gives you about 185 fov, right? If you had a particular
location that you wanted to cover TOTALLY, would the following scenario
work?
1. Mount the camera on a motorized platform, pointing forward so that the
platform isn't in the photo.
2. Set up a local GPS system that gives you perhaps centimeter or even
millimeter accuracy. (An engineer friend of mine told me about a site he was
working on where they had a local GPS system set up with several
transmitters and several receivers mounted on a bulldozer. They fed in what
they wanted the topology to be, and the bulldozer automatically adjusted the
pitch and height of the blade.)
3. Drive the platform around the area to be covered, taking photos at
regular intervals in a grid pattern so that you end up with four views taken
at each intersection of the grid.
4. Group the images together based on their local GPS coordinates, which
should give you four fisheye images that you can stitch together.
5. Navigate the final array of panos which should give you a fully immersive
tour.
Mark
www.pinnacle-vr.com
www.northernlight.net
www.360cities.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: PanoToolsNG@... [mailto:PanoToolsNG@...] On
>Behalf Of Ken Warner
>Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:03 PM
>To: PanoToolsNG@...
>Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Buying or not? 360 degree one-shot camera for
>1100 USD
>
>You could do the same thing with a compact camera and a cheap
>fisheye pointed straight up -- if you have a low car. And if
>you don't, you could put one on the front and one on the back and
>sequence the shots so that the back camera moves forward to the
>front camera's old position before the shot.
>
>Or for $1100, you could put 4 of them on your car...
>
>Jan Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am in the process of purchasing a 360 degree one-shot camera.
>> May I ask for your input?
>>
>> Please find a few examples (raw doughnuts and processed panoramas) at:
>>
>> http://mybestprojects.com/examples
>>
>> I'd like to do a kind of Google streetview website and therefore need to
>> take a panos every 1 second.
>>>From rooftop of a moving car, motorbike, bicycle or on foot.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Is this worth 1100 USD?
>>
>> Alternatives (that are robust enough)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>> You will find 3 types of images:
>> -d frame extracted from the video the camera takes: 500-700kb
>> -p jpg pano made from doughnut: 450 kb
>> -sm smaller pano made with 75% setting from jpeg: 90-110 kb
>>
>> Please use the picture numbers for you comments:
>> 1,3,4,6,15,32.
>>
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
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