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Author: Michael
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Subject: Re: walking pictures
okay..... this is what hugin is doing: it is putting all of the photographs
on top of each other. Is there some setting I need to change?

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Michael <> wrote:

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

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

>>>
>>>         On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Michael <
>>>         <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
>>>             < <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
>>>>                 < <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>
>>>>                     <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
>>>>                         < <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>
>>>> 

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

>>>>
>>>>                                     <mailto:<mailto: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:
>>>> >
>>>>                                     <mailto:
>>>> >

>>>>
>>>>                                     <mailto:<mailto:
>>>> >

>>>>
>>>>                                     <mailto:
>>>> >>>
>>>>                                     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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