Tuesday, August 26, 2008

1.9 gigapixels

With the help of a new computer with 4GB of RAM I have been able to stitch very large images. My newest record is 1.9 Gigapixels, from 372 images shot over a 15 minutes span. The weather conditions were not good, and the exposures vary a bit over the image.

It took a bit more than 2 days to set up the control points (automatic and manually for some images), 1h30 to remap the images, and 23 hours to blend. I really should have bought a computer that could be upgraded to 8GB of RAM...

On the flickr page of the image I have additional details; if you want to view the full image you can do that on GigaPan.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Video + immersive panorama

Pano2VR has a new feature of interactive VR movies (or said another way, video immersive panoramas). Here is my first attempt (the video is over 3MB, please be patient if you want to enjoy it fully).

You will be travelling inside a torus made of Villarceau circles.

Click here to view the immersive video.