On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> 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
<anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu
<mailto:anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:

well..... I guess that doesn't help so much

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> 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
<brian@snaptek.com <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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
<bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> 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
<<mailto:Brian@snaptek.com>Brian@snaptek.com
<mailto: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
<bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>
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
<<mailto:brian@snaptek.com>brian@snaptek.com

<mailto: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 <module>
from OpenGL.GL import *
ImportError: No module named OpenGL.GL

so I apt-get install opengl.gl
<http://opengl.gl>
<http://opengl.gl> . Unfortunately
I get
the same error after installing
opengl.gl <http://opengl.gl>
<http://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
<<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>
<mailto:<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto: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
<<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>

<mailto:<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>bmike1@gmail.com
<mailto: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

<<mailto:anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu
<mailto:anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>

<mailto:<mailto:anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu>anthony.radzykewycz@gatewaycc.edu

<mailto: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. I
was really amazed at the ease of use
of the app.

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