[Radiance-general] Re: QTVR panoramas

Sat, 02 Feb 2002 20:04:22 +0100

Corel PhotoPAINT 9 can export a cylindrical image into a Quicktime Panorama. 
I used it allready with POV-Ray rendered cylindrical images.

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>I remember when I added the -vtc option to Radiance, there was a free
>utility for making QTVR panoramas from cylindrical PICT images.  I did a
>quick search and found the following webpage:
>
>	http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/
>
>On there is a link to "QTVR Make Panorama 2", which does exactly this.
>I haven't tried it, but I recall it used to be necessary to first rotate
>the image, using protate to go to ra_pict, then to this tool.
>Unfortunately, they only have a Mac OS version, but with a little more
>searching, you might find a Windows edition somewhere....
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>-Greg
>>Zack Rogers wrote:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>This is due to the fact that you have a completely normal
>>perspective in vertical direction. A vertical opening angle of
>>180 degrees would result in an infinitesimally tall picture.
>>The first diagram (below the Rayfront screenshot) on this
>>page illustrates the principle:
>>  http://www.schorsch.com/rayfront/manual/viewedit_v.html
>>
>>The full mechanics of cylindrical views are explained here:
>>  http://www.schorsch.com/rayfront/manual/viewedit_c.html
>>
>>
>>-schorsch
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