A related thread (may be some useful info there)
https://forum.nodalninja.com/forum/p...duct-is-coming
Starting with FW C(1/2)E_(0/1)2210 for all controllers,
there is support for stitchless panoramas/tours which are panoramas (STC for short) which uses fisheye images directly without need for stitching.
While stitchless panoramas are around from 2007
(when I made the first one https://www.dxn.ro/1st/ )
it did required some sort of processing from fisheye to cube faces, which can be done automatically.
This port allows direct use of fisheyes with no cube face requirement and doesn't require Adobe Flash either,
it does require krpano which is avilable at https://krpano.com/download/
for test (demo) and for purchase.
Highly recommended for the features it offers.
STC requires only krpano.js (available in the download archive from above) you'll also need
for local test, tour_testingserver.exe from the same archive, if you publish or test on live server there is no need for the .exe
The application of STC are in all areas you cannot stitch or you're not allowed to stitch the panoramas.
Also the fact that it can use directly the JPEGs out of camera is the fast way to have panoramas for view or publishing,
back in 2012, IIRC, I made 254 stereo panoramas in 1 day with automatic processing done in notebook in backpack, all published live.
With this new STC, as is no need to process, the number can be even higher.
The tours can reside on CF/SD card as well, meaning you can connect camera or camera's card to PC and see the panoramas you just shoot.
I thought I need to add some info but in no way I'll try to convince anyone that it should use STC, I'll give only one example from thousands of possible application
Panoramas made at a Marathon event, with people running all over the place,
you can shoot one by one and stitch and you can have a good panorama without stitching errors but in the seam area the image mostly will be not real.
With STC you'll have always real images no matter how dynamic the environment is.
The goal is to add all the info you need here, but due to very busy agenda/to do list,
I'll add once the interest is shown and for specific cases, this will be the most effective and constructive way to add the needed info.
So if you want to try and you have a fisheye lens and you can mount camera in in landscape orientation, with that fisheye lens, on any Fanotec rotator, MECHA or manual one, fell free to ask for specific info here.
How it looks like?
Here is a STC tour made of 7 panoramas from virtual images,
simulating a fisheye lens around 8mm on a crop 1.6 DSLR,
I think this will be the most common case of use, the tilt of fisheye images varies from -15 to +15 which can be served by, say R1, on MECHA or manual rotator
(click on blue arrows for next (bottom-right) or previous (bottom-left) panoramas
you can also download the entire tour using this temporary link (zip pass is Mecha)
As a real case of usage can be this set of 4 panoramas I shoot back in 2012
you'll notice some slight misalignment, because the images are from right camera from a dual camera set-up,
no MECHA around those days but I did used a Fanotec Pole and R-D6 rotator :)
with a twin setup 2xCanon 350D+Sigma 8mm f/3.5
This is like a public beta with some know issues which will be eliminate in the near future,
1) Has the little pauses at switching the fisheyes (the pauses were not in the cube face variant)
2) For MECHA, some values needs to be enter manually in html, as they are values known by MECHA, obviously, MECHA will generate automatically.
3) hotspots, thumbnails, QR codes and timestamps will be added as well, as they were always in the original stitchless panoramas.
4) support for 3D anaglyph and SBS (for 3D TV) will be added.
5) gigapixel STC (is a just a bit different) will be in future, along with support for rectilinear lens, which are required for gigapixel.
I'll add more info once interest is shown.
cheers,
Dorin
https://forum.nodalninja.com/forum/p...duct-is-coming
Starting with FW C(1/2)E_(0/1)2210 for all controllers,
there is support for stitchless panoramas/tours which are panoramas (STC for short) which uses fisheye images directly without need for stitching.
While stitchless panoramas are around from 2007
(when I made the first one https://www.dxn.ro/1st/ )
it did required some sort of processing from fisheye to cube faces, which can be done automatically.
This port allows direct use of fisheyes with no cube face requirement and doesn't require Adobe Flash either,
it does require krpano which is avilable at https://krpano.com/download/
for test (demo) and for purchase.
Highly recommended for the features it offers.
STC requires only krpano.js (available in the download archive from above) you'll also need
for local test, tour_testingserver.exe from the same archive, if you publish or test on live server there is no need for the .exe
The application of STC are in all areas you cannot stitch or you're not allowed to stitch the panoramas.
Also the fact that it can use directly the JPEGs out of camera is the fast way to have panoramas for view or publishing,
back in 2012, IIRC, I made 254 stereo panoramas in 1 day with automatic processing done in notebook in backpack, all published live.
With this new STC, as is no need to process, the number can be even higher.
The tours can reside on CF/SD card as well, meaning you can connect camera or camera's card to PC and see the panoramas you just shoot.
I thought I need to add some info but in no way I'll try to convince anyone that it should use STC, I'll give only one example from thousands of possible application
Panoramas made at a Marathon event, with people running all over the place,
you can shoot one by one and stitch and you can have a good panorama without stitching errors but in the seam area the image mostly will be not real.
With STC you'll have always real images no matter how dynamic the environment is.
The goal is to add all the info you need here, but due to very busy agenda/to do list,
I'll add once the interest is shown and for specific cases, this will be the most effective and constructive way to add the needed info.
So if you want to try and you have a fisheye lens and you can mount camera in in landscape orientation, with that fisheye lens, on any Fanotec rotator, MECHA or manual one, fell free to ask for specific info here.
How it looks like?
Here is a STC tour made of 7 panoramas from virtual images,
simulating a fisheye lens around 8mm on a crop 1.6 DSLR,
I think this will be the most common case of use, the tilt of fisheye images varies from -15 to +15 which can be served by, say R1, on MECHA or manual rotator
(click on blue arrows for next (bottom-right) or previous (bottom-left) panoramas
you can also download the entire tour using this temporary link (zip pass is Mecha)
As a real case of usage can be this set of 4 panoramas I shoot back in 2012
you'll notice some slight misalignment, because the images are from right camera from a dual camera set-up,
no MECHA around those days but I did used a Fanotec Pole and R-D6 rotator :)
with a twin setup 2xCanon 350D+Sigma 8mm f/3.5
This is like a public beta with some know issues which will be eliminate in the near future,
1) Has the little pauses at switching the fisheyes (the pauses were not in the cube face variant)
2) For MECHA, some values needs to be enter manually in html, as they are values known by MECHA, obviously, MECHA will generate automatically.
3) hotspots, thumbnails, QR codes and timestamps will be added as well, as they were always in the original stitchless panoramas.
4) support for 3D anaglyph and SBS (for 3D TV) will be added.
5) gigapixel STC (is a just a bit different) will be in future, along with support for rectilinear lens, which are required for gigapixel.
I'll add more info once interest is shown.
cheers,
Dorin
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