> Quite amazing! I guess they are using two blended sets of off-set panoramas?
AZ
That's what I still don't understand. When you take a normal panorama presumably the "lens" rotates about the entrance pupil (?). If you had two cameras side by side where would the axis of rotation be?
Mmm. Maybe it's OK for a "scanning" type of shot but I could see problems for assembling these from a sequence of static frames.
Bob
Bob,
Sequence pans assemble better if the camera rotates at the lens nodal point. Rotating pans can rotate considerably behind the lens. I made an offset base for the Lookaround to do stereo pairs. It works only for about 120 degrees perpendicular to the rotation. I have a twin lens stereo Lookaround to do real-time 3D. I suspect that the Stereo Photomaker is a pair of digital cams. It's easy to make stereos with my Canon A70. I'll have to try doing stereo pans.
Check out these Mars Berries: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040212a/09-ml-5-pre_post_anim-B019R1.gif
AZ
