360x180 Panorama

Overview
History of Panorama
Basics of Panorama
Creating Panoramas
Stitching Panoramas

Panorama Mesdag

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

History of Panorama
panorama Mesdag 1881
cylindrical projection
painted panorama (rotunda)
first steps in
spherical projections
Panorama Mesdag

immersive dive into virtual reality

augmented reality mixture of real
and artificial elements

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Projection Types
Cubic Panorama
image information is projected on all
6 cube-faces
e.g. QuickTime VR

Spherical Panorama
image information is projected on a
sphere
e.g. var. Internet viewer (java)

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Taking images for panorama creation

take the photographs
use tripod with panorama-head for nodal-point
rotation
(alternative: http://www.philohome.com/tripod/shooting.htm)

set viewing angle and dont change while

rotating
manual exposure (time and aperture)
manual white balance
manual iso
if possible use cameras RAW mode
depending on camera and lens take photos
approx. 30% overlapping of pictures
http://www.philohome.com/tripod/shooting.htm

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Creating Panorama stitching

Two or more image are combined by
stitching .

http://www.ptgui.com/

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Creating Panorama stitching

For panorama generation use Adobe
Bridge, Hugin, Pano2QTVR and Photoshop
convert RAW-files using Adobe Bridge
load images into Hugin and enter
appropriate lens parameters
(dont load nadir (bottom image)
press align
adjust control points and
remove points in sky (celeste)
optimize panorama and save
to tif (lzw compression)
Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Touch-Up panorama
open Pano2QTVR and create new project
open equirectangular image (panorama
from hugin)
convert to cubic using tif file-format

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Touch-Up panorama
open pano_cube_5.tif and
nadir-image in Photoshop
use marquee tool for ground
selection ( use Alt + Shift
while selecting)
copy and paste into other
image
rotate, align and scale as
needed (also use warp tool)
feather borders and colorcorrect image
flatten and save as
pano_cube_5.tif
Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas

Create QT Panorama
return to Pano2QTVR
set panorama size under
Settings Movie Properties
press Create (Project) to start
conversion
Enjoy panorama !!!

Essentials of real environment visualisations Institute for architectural sciences / digital architecture and planning A. Faller, A. Jonas