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

360x180 Panorama

OverviewHistory of PanoramaBasics of PanoramaCreating PanoramasStitching 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 1881cylindrical projectionpainted panorama (rotunda)

first steps in spherical projections

immersive dive into virtual reality

augmented reality mixture of real and artificial elements

Panorama Mesdag

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 enterappropriate lens parameters(dont load nadir (bottom image)

press align

adjust control points andremove points in sky (celeste)

optimize panorama and saveto 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 groundselection ( use Alt + Shiftwhile selecting)

copy and paste into otherimage

rotate, align and scale asneeded (also use warp tool)

feather borders and color-correct image

flatten and save aspano_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 underSettings Movie Properties

press Create (Project) to startconversion

Enjoy panorama !!!