gHacks technology news » panoramic images http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Feel the image, become the image http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:04:50 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/ I’m writing this article rather excited because of what I have just seen. Panoramic photos recently started to be very popular when the first algorithms and applications for creating such images appeared and digital cameras were given support for this specific kind of shooting. Publishing such shots on Flickr or any other similar site sure is fine but I’ve just hit a service that serves panoramic photos in a breath-taking way.

The site I’m talking about is called ViewAt and it doesn’t appear to be special by any means until you choose a photo to be transformed and viewed in 3D by their service. A flash-based strip will then appear showing you the panoramic photo as a 3D animation.

You can watch the panorama as a whole or click in the picture to start moving around it and see all the details. You can also zoom in or out but the picture is only smooth when not moving. Here comes the best part – try switching to full-screen by hitting the button in the lower right corner and watch what happens.

google maps panoramic views

To make the first impression best, I recommend you to view THIS particular image in full-screen with a suitable background music (which is quite important for the resulting effect), exactly as I did when I first hit this website. Watch the sky, the sea… Can you see the beauty?

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/feel-the-image-become-the-image/feed/ 5 Create 360 Degree Panoramas from your Pictures http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/26/create-360-degree-panoramas-from-your-pictures/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/26/create-360-degree-panoramas-from-your-pictures/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:17:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/26/create-360-degree-panoramas-from-your-pictures/ Holiday season is coming closer and I thought it would be nice to begin writing some articles that would fit nicely into that season. If you are using a digital camera to take pictures you might find the free software Autostitch worth a try. Autostitch creates a panoramic image from all the images that you load into the image manipulation software. This works of course only if the images are related to each other. If you took three pictures from different angles for instance that all show part of the same landscape. Everything is done automatically.

You simply choose the pictures from your hard drive and Autostitcher generates the new panoramic image. It is possible to change the settings before you load the images. You could raise the output quality of the panoramic image, select an output size or use the auto crop and auto straighten settings. The results with the default settings look fine most of the time though. You should be aware that only visible parts can be joined. This means that some spaces on the final image could be black because Autostitcher did not find information about that part in any of the images that you loaded.

Autostitch offers some test images that can be used to see how it works out. Just take a look below to see the process. Oh, and don’t let the “demo version” confuse you. The program is free to use for non-commercial use and the demo will only expire if a new version becomes available. Just download the new version and use that from now on.

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