walking pictures
Anthony Radzykewycz
anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu
Fri Mar 4 11:58:14 MST 2016
The app will guide you on how many pictures to take and use circular guides
that you need to 'cover.' It takes the pictures when you have 'covered the
circle. From there, the app stitches it all together for you and then you
can upload it to Google maps. If you wanted to embed the photoshphere, they
have an api that you can sign up for to showcase that. I hope to work on
mapping out paths between the photospheres, but we have not really started
on that portion at all. Try it out. I was really amazed at the ease of use
of the app.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have a Samsung Galaxy phone?
>
> In my camera settings I have a setting called panorama, I point the phone
> and turn slowly, it works very well.
>
> If you don't have the galaxy, I'm sure there's a camera app that will do
> panorama
> On Mar 3, 2016 4:18 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I do it I sure will! as for the 'street google street view' app the
>> closest I can find is 'google street view'. Anthony, that is a good 360
>> picture of the auto service bay at gateway. To do it take a bunch of
>> pictures and stitch them together with hugin and then put them into the ap?
>> Can I download it for my computer? when you figure out how to link
>> everything together let me know. I would think you would just take a bunch
>> of pictures of the door and the hall and on. What do you think?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz <
>> anthony.radzykewycz at gatewaycc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I've not tried it before. The user interface is very easy to use. There
>>> are some areas that didn't align quite right, but the app walks you through
>>> point by point on where to shoot the photo. It'll take a few minutes. I'd
>>> be curious to see what the indoors one would look like. Michael, if you try
>>> it out, could you put some of your photospheres here for us to see? :-).
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was going to mention that you could just use your phone, but with the
>>>> amount of parallax distortion you would get indoors, because of the close
>>>> quarters, I decided to pass on it as a suggestion. Using your phone
>>>> without some fancy rig to align the lens correctly would lead to some very
>>>> strange/bad looking real estate photos.
>>>>
>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>
>>>> On 03/03/2016 09:15 AM, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have experience with a particular application for single photos. We
>>>>> haven't gotten to taken multiple to link them in a 'tour' yet. Use an
>>>>> android device, go to the play store, download "Street Google Street
>>>>> View," then get back to me if that works. I find it to work very well.
>>>>> Here's a photo we took (spoiler alert: plug for our college.) It's
>>>>> free.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Automotive/@33.4492937,-111.9981612,3a,75y,339.38h,82.17t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-R2TgnaTB8rg%2FVsdPXmqvNaI%2FAAAAAAAACN0%2FMmnEtIAkgLs!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-R2TgnaTB8rg%2FVsdPXmqvNaI%2FAAAAAAAACN0%2FMmnEtIAkgLs%2Fw392-h196-n-k-no%2F!7i8704!8i4352!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x872b0e86227901f1:0x6f3e855d11e11760!2sGateWay+Community+College!3b1!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x6f3082e7a75018be!6m1!1e1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>>>>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no super cheap way to do spherical panoramas correctly,
>>>>> but
>>>>> there are a ton of ways to do them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably the cheapest way to do it is to get a panorama head for
>>>>> your tripod and take a bunch of pictures of the room. I really
>>>>> like
>>>>> the nodal ninja for doing that. It's inexpensive (compared to a
>>>>> lot
>>>>> of the others) and it's well built:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/838674-REG/Nodal_Ninja_N3II_PKG_NN_MKII_Starter_Package.html
>>>>>
>>>>> To use the nodal ninja you have to carefully align the camera's
>>>>> lens
>>>>> so that when you spin it around the camera is rotated on it's focal
>>>>> point. That will be somewhere between the front of the camera and
>>>>> the image sensor.
>>>>> Then you just take a bunch of pictures that overlap about 30% to
>>>>> 50%. You probably take anywhere from 16 to 90 pictures per photo
>>>>> sphere depending on how wide angle your lens is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then you just stitch all the images together in hugin.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are automated versions of the tripod heads, and this is the
>>>>> route I would go. They offer the ability of just set how far apart
>>>>> you want your images to be taken in degrees and then simple press a
>>>>> button, leave the room and wait for it to take the pictures. It
>>>>> offers the cheapest and highest quality of all the panorama
>>>>> techniques that I know of. A very good example of the Gigapan.
>>>>> With the smaller cameras you could get the cheapest model and it's
>>>>> not all that much more expensive than the Nodal Ninja.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.omegabrandess.com/products/Gigapan/600-0006
>>>>>
>>>>> There are also a number of specialized camera's that range from a
>>>>> couple of hundred bucks to thousands. The cheapest one I know if
>>>>> is
>>>>> the Ricoh Theta M15:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-Theta-Degree-Spherical-Panorama/dp/B00OZCM71O
>>>>> Many of the dedicated cameras, the Ricoh included use multiple
>>>>> cameras to capture the image. In wide open spaces that it's such a
>>>>> big deal, but inside buildings having multiple cameras that don't
>>>>> capture images from a single focal point will cause parallax
>>>>> distortion, which causes ghosting and tearing in the picture. The
>>>>> ricoh only has 2 cameras so there will only be one place in the
>>>>> image that will have the problem which will be in a big ring around
>>>>> the whole image, top to bottom, so it might not be a bad camera for
>>>>> real estate photos since you can plan where the problems will be.
>>>>> When you get to higher end camera like the Panono which have 36
>>>>> cameras that are further apart. Indoor pictures will become
>>>>> terrible with lots and lots of strange problems. Outdoors, with
>>>>> everything being much further away, the parallax distortion isn't a
>>>>> huge problem and you are treated to great 108 Megapixel images.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.panono.com/home
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally there are specialized lenses. but you'll probably have to
>>>>> have a much more expensive camera and the panorama is fairly low
>>>>> resolution because you are now spreading your camera's pixels
>>>>> around
>>>>> 360 degrees, but if you need to take quick high quality photos that
>>>>> don't require stitching, these can do the trick, but they are
>>>>> expensive. Here's an example of one of those:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.amazon.com/EyeSee-360-Panoramic-Photowarp-Videowarp/dp/B003VHZS9W
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/03/2016 06:53 AM, Michael wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I go to google maps and go to a world view and plop the little
>>>>> guy down
>>>>> somewhere and often the street view that pops up is sometimes
>>>>> in the
>>>>> middle of the wilderness. I asked hear about it before and was
>>>>> told that
>>>>> you can get a hat with a camera on it to do that. Well, I doubt
>>>>> I can
>>>>> afford that hat so how could I do something similar with a
>>>>> camera?
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically, what I want to do is do a virtual tour of a house
>>>>> and of
>>>>> it's property. Could someone help me?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>
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