not using the tripod must be why it isn't finding any control points automatically. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > When making panoramas inside you MUST use some sort of rig to spin the > camera perfectly on it's focal point. That's the only way to make sure > that you aren't introducing a lot of parallax distortion. If you are > outside you can often get away with just taking a bunch of pictures in a > circle because objects in the picture are far enough away that a few inches > won't be noticeable, but when you are inside just a couple of inches of > difference in the pictures causes a tremendous amount of distortion that > Hugin won't be able to deal with automatically, and even if you manually > set control points, the control points won't make sense to Hugin because > the distortion will skew the math. It is possible to manually set control > points but you have to only set points on objects that are all the same > distance from the camera. If you try to set control points that are at > different distances, that's where you run into trouble. It's like when you > hold you your finger in front of your face and alternately close one eye > and then the other and your finger jumps back and forth... the same things > happens inside Hugin and it really doesn't like it. > > On a related note, just because I have time to type more, you can use > Hugin to stitch panoramas of distant objects that have smaller objects in > the foreground, such as a sign at the grand canyon telling you not to jump > off, that you don't want in the picture, by purposely taking pictures that > would normally introduce distortion. All you have to do is make sure that > you only set control points on the furthest away landscape that you really > want, and then use Hugin's masking feature to mask out the object (sign in > this case) that you don't want and when it gets done you will have a nice > signless pictures of your landscape. > > Brian Cluff > > On 03/08/2016 02:52 PM, Michael wrote: > >> Yeah, I spent a long time putting control points in and it didn't seem >> to like to do the inside spherical panorama. >> >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz >> > > wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, I am not familiar with any other applications to >> accomplish the goal at hand. >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Michael > > wrote: >> >> well..... I guess that doesn't help so much >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Michael > > wrote: >> >> I'll tell ya, I don't know why it isn't working but it >> isn't. So I was just about to ask the group if they know of >> a tutorial when the thought occurred to me that I should >> google for it first. That turned up: >> >> http://arachnoid.com/drones/drone_images.html >> >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Brian Cluff >> > wrote: >> >> Have you tried clicking "Fit" under the Move and Drag >> tab. There might be more of your panorama that is off >> the display and is being cropped. >> >> Brian >> >> >> On 03/06/2016 10:02 AM, Michael wrote: >> >>> I just did it again and all the pictures showed up >>> correctly but it only did halp of the sphere. Does my >>> 'projection need to be something specific? >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Michael >>> > wrote: >>> >>> I tried that about an hour ago but it turned six >>> of the images 180 degrees for some reason. I >>> looked at what it was reading the data from and >>> the pictures were fine. >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Brian Cluff >>> <Brian@snaptek.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>> Hugin can make 360 spherical pianos without >>> any special effort. Just put all the images >>> into Hugin that make up the sphere and it will >>> do the test. The tutorial that you linked to >>> is how to make an HDR spherical panorama, >>> that's a little more effort than I think you >>> want to do for real estate photos. >>> >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> On March 6, 2016 6:33:03 AM MST, Michael >>> > >>> wrote: >>> >>> I was sitting here thinking that hugin >>> should be able to do this and that someone >>> should suggest it to a developer. Then I >>> thought someone might have done that >>> already. So I did a websearch! Look at >>> what I found: >>> >>> >>> http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/enfuse-360/en.shtml >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Brian >>> Cluff >>> <brian@snaptek.com >>> >>> > wrote: >>> >>> Try: >>> apt-get install python-opengl >>> >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> On 03/05/2016 06:30 PM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> I thought about it and think I >>> realized the error of my ways; >>> python.exe >>> is because python is not >>> automatically in Windows like with >>> Linux so I >>> don't need that program. >>> Unfortunately when I tried to run >>> the other >>> program: >>> >>> $ python PhotoSphere.py >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "PhotoSphere.py", line 21, >>> in >>> from OpenGL.GL import * >>> ImportError: No module named >>> OpenGL.GL >>> >>> so I apt-get install opengl.gl >>> >>> . Unfortunately >>> I get >>> the same error after installing >>> opengl.gl >>> . Then I >>> tried apt-get install openGL.GL >>> but am informed that the program is >>> already installed. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:39 PM, >>> Michael >>> < >>> bmike1@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> bmike1@gmail.com >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Ifound something that might be >>> sorta wahat I'm looking for. >>> < >>> http://meestuff.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-photo-sphere-viewer-for-desktop.html >>> > >>> http://meestuff.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-photo-sphere-viewer-for-desktop.html >>> >>> . >>> It is suppossed to work with >>> Linux. >>> I download the file and >>> extract it but there are no >>> instructions to >>> install it. I opened the bat >>> file and the contents of it seemed to >>> be instructions for installing >>> but unfortuatly: >>> >>> bmike1@MikesBeast >>> >>> ~/Documents/Programs/PhotoSphereBundle >>> $ >>> ./App/python.exe >>> ./App/PhotoSphere.py >>> >>> bash: ./App/python.exe: >>> Permission denied >>> >>> bmike1@MikesBeast >>> >>> ~/Documents/Programs/PhotoSphereBundle >>> $ >>> .\App\python.exe >>> .\App\PhotoSphere.py >>> >>> .Apppython.exe: command not found >>> Please, how do I install it? >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:03 >>> PM, Michael >>> < >>> bmike1@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> bmike1@gmail.com >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you very much >>> Anthony. This sounds very much >>> like what I >>> would like to use. >>> When I searched for >>> 'street google street view' >>> yesterday I >>> could not find it in the >>> playstore. I searched for >>> photospere in >>> google and that search >>> revealed that it was put on >>> android 4.2 >>> and my phone is only a >>> 2.2. Is there a way to download it >>> (or >>> something similar) to my >>> computer? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at >>> 1:58 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz >>> >>> <>> anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu >>> >> anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu> >>> >>> >> anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu >>> >>> >> anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> 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. 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