Derek McAllan Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Well, not the plane but this pic is very fishy... Fish-Eye, that is. *waits for the groans to subside* Aww come on, the pun wasn't that bad Still playing around with panoramas and here's my latest, and how could I resist featuring the newest kid on the block, the marvelously fantabulous ORBX Lancair IV-P. This shot is a composite of 24 screen captures at 1920x1200 taken from a cam trailing from the right wingtip and composited into a full 360 degree spherical panorama. This means the composite image can be viewed from within a panorama viewer and you can look in any direction you please... including straight up or down. The flight was taken from Launy and the captures were a little south of the airport. Rather than show my usual presentation of a panorama as an ultra-wide field of view cylindrical projection, I've chosen to generate this one with a fish-eye projection, you can see roughly 90% of the ground hemisphere below the aircraft and also about 75% of the surrounding sky hemisphere, the rest I've cropped off to make it a bit more visually pleasing. Just as an aside, you can make some truly huge pics like this... the unedited jpeg of this image is a whopping 6848 x 3424 pixels and weighs in at 20.6MB. After cropping, resizing down to forum post size and image compression, I got it down to 150kB. I'm thinking about getting some of these pano's printed - they're large and hi-res enough for it. Hope you like, please fling criticisms as you will Cheers, Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Charalambous Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Looks very interesting but seems to give me a headache if i stare at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McAllan Posted October 25, 2010 Author Share Posted October 25, 2010 Oh, you want headache inducing?? I give you... the Earthball! Fisheye projection of the same scene, looking straight down. Aww sorry Jared, I bent your plane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 nice pov, but makes me slightly dizzy looking to long at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonman Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 nice pov, but makes me slightly dizzy looking to long at it HA! me too - the 2nd one is like looking into some sort of a crystal boll - i have to admit: ´really like the thing that is to be seen in there! a great set of "fisheyed" pictures!! have a nice flight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McAllan Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 Cheers guys, I promise not to post anything too freaky Just trying to achieve a different look. Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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