> 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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