Hi Robert, There are many different ways of shooting, stitching and presenting 360 panoramas. A lot of how you will progress starts with how you are going to shoot your panorama,,,, 1.Single shot (Single shot uses a device like the BeHere product that uses a mirror to reflect the scene) 2.Two Hemispheres (2 Hemispheres uses for example a Nikon Coolpix 990 with 183 degree Fisheye lens to produce 2 hemispheres with a small overlap that are stitched together.) 3. Multiple shots (shoot a number of single images that once again are stitched together.) ...and if your panorama is going to be reproduced in Cubic or Cylindrical form. Cubic is full 360, view up, around and down while cylindrical is more like "letterbox" format and doesn't have top and bottom views. Once you have your shots, if you use option 2 or 3, you will need to stitch them together. Here's where you need some software. There's quite a range of options out there, I use option 2 to shoot hemispheres and use Panoweaver Pro to stitch them together. When you have your panorama stitched you need to create a file that you can imbed into an html page or, in your case, open off the desktop. As we deliver our files via the web we create a single .mov file and using detect code provide either a quicktime (QT6) or java player (PTViewer) to display the .mov file based upon the users plugin preferences. Links: http://www.panoguide.com/ this is a great site for all the information on how to shoot vrmls, software etc. Here's two links the first showing a QT version the second the same movie in PTViewer. http://www.yha.com.au/hostels/360_tour.cfm?hostelid=29&vrmlid=5 http://www.yha.com.au/hostels/360_tour.cfm?hostelid=29&vrmlid=5&ptviewer=1 regards, Tony http://www.redsquare.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu >[mailto:owner-photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu]On Behalf Of Robert G. >Earnest >Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 4:13 AM >To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students >Subject: Re: Missing items > > > > >Has anyone experience shooting images for showing 360 panoramas >on the web? >I am thinking I will need to import the image into Quicktime VR or >something. > >The image will then be scrolled around on the screen and the screen >filmed for a television commercial. > >any suggestions? > > > >thanks, > >r >
