1. Panoramas how to florek@sccg.sk

2. martin florek2 Definition An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area [1] A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene, often exhibited a part at a time by being unrolled and passed before the spectator [1] panoramic view – FOV > 100° cyclorama, diorama

3. Diorama a diorama in the Museum of Natural history in Milan (Italy).Milan martin florek3

4. 4 History from Greek words: pan = all, horama = view [2] 1792 - the first painted panorama – Robert Barker

5. martin florek5 History continued San Francisco from Rincon Hill, 1851, © Martin Behrman View from the top of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., February, 1864 – © George N. Barnard

6. Types planarcylindrical www.panoguide.com6 spherical cubic

7. martin florek7 Taking pictures choose a place turn and shoot overlap 30%

8. martin florek8 Taking pictures continued good tripod pano-head small aperture (high f-number) hyperfocal distance shoot verticaly wide angle spirit level remote shutter release no polarising filter

9. martin florek9 Problems brightness problems → manual exposure white balance → manual WB or shoot raw parallax problems → nodal point? [3] shoot to raw → very good idea :)

10. martin florek10 Parallax problem pictures from [4] solution - turn camera around “nodal” point it is the center of entrance pupil

11. martin florek11 Special hardware 180° or full 360° views in one shot hyperbolic and spherical panoramic mirrors circular fish-eye lenses

12. martin florek12 Software Hugin AutoPano Pro PTGui Adobe Photoshop CS4 Autodesk Stitcher

13. martin florek13 Software steps photos input, lens specification lens corrections – distortions, vignette, abberations control points selection images composition stitching brightness correction, blending cutting, export to output format

14. martin florek14 Hugin graphical interface for several free applications fully automatic with added “plug-ins” –Panorama tools – main engine, stitching, remove distortions –AutoPano – automatic corresponding points (patent on SIFT algorithm) –Enblend – blends images “without” seams

15. The end thank you for your attention questions? florek@sccg.sk http://paulbuckland.com/Sunset%20from%20TST%20waterfront.htm martin florek15

16. martin florek16 References [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/panoramahttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/panorama [2] http://brickhaus.com/amoore/magazine/hughes.htmlhttp://brickhaus.com/amoore/magazine/hughes.html [3] http://www.vrphotography.com/data/pages/techtutorials/t echnotes/nodalptalign-tn.html http://www.vrphotography.com/data/pages/techtutorials/t echnotes/nodalptalign-tn.html [4] http://www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/QTVR/NodalPoint.ht m http://www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/QTVR/NodalPoint.ht m [5] http://www.morper.net/index_files/pano_howto_3.phphttp://www.morper.net/index_files/pano_howto_3.php [6] http://www.panoguide.com/http://www.panoguide.com/