[Radiance-general] Re: panoramic animation

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:15:35 -0700

Phil,

Thanks for the kind words!  The panoramic animations are really quite easy with
Radiance.  I create a view that is cylindrical, has a horizontal view angle of
360 degrees and a vertical view angle of 90.   So for example center.vf reads:

rview -vtc -vp 875 855 141 -vd -1 0 0 -vu 0 0 1 -vh 360 -vv 90

This creates the full 360 deg view of the space....Radiance is simply amazing!
I've tried having a vertical view angle of 180, which in theory could give you
a complete sphere of view angles allowing you to pan down and up as well, but
that does not seem to work and I'm not exactly sure why.  You get a very
vertically elongated image.

Then I convert the Radiance images to .jpg format....and I go through the gif
format to do this.

Then there are two programs you can use to view these 360deg images as
panaramic animations.

1)  Pixaround.com provides a free panoramic viewer called PixScreen.  You just
open any jpg image in the program.  Viewing in full 360o mode adjusts the image
to give the correct perspectives, otherwise you get these curvy lines that are
not realistic.  PixAround also has a program that I believe is $150US called
PixMaker that then lets you publish these panoramics to a website or create
stand alone executables....they call them "postcards".  The stand alone
executables are nice because no programs or plugins are needed to view them.

2)  The other option, and I prefer this format because allows some movement up
and down and creates panoramics in the somewhat common quicktime *.mov format,
is PanoWorx.  PanoWorx I believe is $200US.  This is the format posted on our
website.  This program will take any gif or jpg and convert it to .mov format
which can then be viewed with Quicktime.

Both programs can also take any number of images and seam them together to
create panoramics....at some point I would like to add actual photograph
landscape backgrounds to these images.  The animation of the new Fraunhofer ISE
Building ( http://www.ise.fhg.de/radiance/ ) has a city backdrop that is really
cool looking.  I would be interested to learn how this was done?

I hope this helps!  I'm really excited about these panoramics and the
architects I work with have really liked them.  It really helps them visualize
what the space will feel like.

Zack

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> From: Phillip Greenup <[email protected]>
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> Hi Zack,
>
> There are some impressive visualisations displayed on your web-site.  I am
> particularly interested in your panoramic animation of the pool.  could you
> tell us how you created this animation?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil Greenup.
>
> >As far as modeling water, I recently tried to tackle this for a glare
> >study on an indoor pool.  The images of the pool can also be
> >seen at;
> >
> >http://www.archenergy.com/sda/designtools/radiance.html  ---> Chilson
> >
> >Hope this helps!
> >Zack
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> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:14:31 +1000
> From: Phillip Greenup <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Radiance-general] he.cal file
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> Hi all,
>
> Has anybody out there ever used the he.cal or he3.cal files with the
> brtdfunc primitive?  i have been attempting to use it a bit, and found some
> troubles.  every time i use either of them on my pc based adeline version
> of Radiance, the simulation crashes.  has anybody else had similar
> problems, or had any success?
>
> Thanks again,
> Phil Greenup.
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