{"id":460,"date":"2010-03-19T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insidethe.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-03-21T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:09:50","slug":"stitching-images-the-panorama-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/stitching-images-the-panorama-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitching Images – The Panorama Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics I’ve been enthralled with the freedom of 360 degree and wide aspect panoramic pictures. Apple had recently released\u00a0QuickTime VR<\/a> and used it to create 360 degree photos of the Atlanta Olympics. Viewing the photos across my dial-up modem was a chore but the reward of exploring the environment and choosing where to look made the task worth the effort. Instead of being captivate to the photographer’s intended target I was free to look in the other direction for a complete sense of the location. Apple was the first, as I recall, to pioneer this type of technology and make it available to the general public<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I didn’t have a Mac and couldn’t generate content on my own. Later years I dabbled with PTgui<\/a> and some other stitching software that came with a camera. The results were impressive but I wasn’t ready to invest in a high quality camera and the software to generate the images. The Panorama Tools project<\/a> was interesting but between 2000 and 2002 the tools were too complex to bother using.<\/p>\n

Over the past year my interest in panoramic pictures was refreshed by projects like GigaPan<\/a> and Spherical Panoramas<\/a>. It was possible for me to tinker with multi-picture stitched panoramic pictures from my point-and-shoot camera because Windows Vista and Windows 7 included a free panorama stitcher in Windows Live Photo Gallery. While on vacation I free handed 20 picture panorama from a beach in Costa Rica with my brother’s digital SLR camera. The results were amazing and I knew it was worth upgrading and buying the proper software.<\/p>\n

The “Projects -> Photography” category is an ongoing blog of my adventures with stitched panoramic and 360 degree pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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