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Explores the range of techniques for the production of digital interactive panoramas and object movies
Details of all the necessary steps involved in panoramic photography
Professional tips and tricks from a professional photographer and web designer
Panoramas have a captivating effect, whether integrated in a personal homepage or professionally used in architecture, in museums or in company or product presentations. Written in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand format, this book details all of the necessary steps involved in panoramic photography: from the production of digital and analog picture sequences, stitching using software tools (like REALVIZ Stitcher, VR Worx and PanoTools), all the way to publishing interactive panoramas on the Web (e.g., using QuickTime VR, PTViewer, VRML and iPIX). The book introduces the production of cylindrical and spherical panoramas, as well as object movies and explains how to link individual panoramas to virtual tours. Regardless if you use a panoramic camera, a fisheye lens or the single row or multi-row technique: this book offers practical tips and tricks for every alternative. Tables with detailed comparisons of the individual techniques help decide on the appropriate method for specific goals.1. Introduction.- 1.1 The fascination of panoramic art.- 1.2 Panoramas on the Internet.- 1.3 Panoramic forms Projection.- 1.3.1 Cylindrical projection.- 1.3.2 Spherical projection.- 1.3.3 Cubic projection.- 2. Fundamentals.- 2.1 Production of interactive panoramas.- 2.1.1 Taking pictures with a panoramic camera.- 2.1.2 Taking individual pictures.- 2.1.3 Correcting image distortion.- 2.1.4 Stitching individual pictures.- 2.1.5 Retouching the panoramic picture.- 2.1.6 Publication of the panorama.- 2.2 Term definitions.- 2.2.1 Lenses.- 220.127.116.11 Rectilinear lenses.- 18.104.22.168 Fisheye lenses.- 2.2.2 Focal length and field of view.- 2.2.3 Imagl#z
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