To be able to publish the panorama of the Internet, or watch it from a local drive on your computer, you should have a few things: file with panorama and a program capable of teak file display, ie player.
Panoramas, we see such. Internet, Planting writes one of several types of files: image files in TIF format, JPG, Pliki animacji Apple Quicktime, noszące rozszerzenie MOV, or Flash animation files (SWF) – that is, in the format created by Macromedia, My favorite was acquired by Adobe.. Whether, What file format panorama will use, everything starts from the imagery.
To shoot a scene displayed later as a spherical panorama to be photographed all visible elements surrounding our world. There are outfits, that will do this automatically: at one time is photographed in all directions (in fact almost all) using one or a dime a dozen cameras. But most often photographed performing panning scene from a few to several hundred (in the case of GigaPans: even many thousands) photos, przesuwając stopniowo aparat, to the field of view of the lens fragments included another scene lying next (with some overlap). The longer the focal length of the lens, including more photos follow. It is convenient to take fewer photos, So you need lenses have become very wide viewing angle. The widest viewing angle are called fisheye lenses (z ang. Fish eye). Dlatego rozpowszechniły się one bardzo wśród panoramistów. Ale panoramę można wykonać nawet zwykłym, kitowym lens.
To do it yourself from start to finish spherical panorama (360°) should be sequentially:
- Perform the appropriate manner and resulting from the method and amount of your hardware components for panorama photos.
- Correspondingly work done photo (np. convert them to a format acceptable to the programs used in the later stages of the preparation of the panorama).
- Connect the component images using a special program (tzw stitchera), or “glue them together” them in your panoramas.
- Prepare your pan for publication (np. divide it into the so-called wall cubic, convert to Apple QuickTime ,czyli MOV).
- Publish panorama on the page or make a presentation so, that it can be played from a CD / DVD or hard drive.
In the next section I will explain how to shoot panoramas.