Amazing 360x180 P3P Panoramic from 500ft above my house
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Was just thinking - isn't there an obvious SDK opportunity here? Does anyone know if with the new SDK a "script" could be written to move the P3 to a particular spot & altitude, position the gimbal, take a series or burst of pictures while rotating, move the gimbal, down, repeat, etc. That would be exactly what I did but would use the higher res stills and be precisely controlled for an exact overlap of pics. Also would be incredibly efficient in terms of time and number of shots. Heck I could see with such automation the shots necessary to do what I did but better be performed in less than a minute.
Heck, people would PAY for an app that did this....
DOM
Heck, people would PAY for an app that did this....
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Ok, so it's more than just the html file. Are you hosting all of those files on your web server?
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No question that the final product looks great! However, since the 4K camera has a 94° field of view horizontally, to cover 360°, you only need 4 images with 4° of overlap each to cover it, not 60. Take 6 and you'll have 30° of overlap, which should be plenty. For the vertical 120°, take 3 or 4 because of the HD narrow frame top to bottom with plenty of overlap. More isn't better, once you have enough to stitch the edges together. It's just redundant. You aren't creating a super high pixel count wide angle view by stitching 5° FOV 400mm telephoto frames together. Instead, these are all 20mm equivalent frame images, which don't gain resolution, but only gain increased field of view from 94° to 360° and covers the full 120° of the gimbal elevation range. Those needed 12 jpeg frames should only take a minute to shoot in 3 rows of 4 images as you rotate 60° per frame, at each of the three gimbal elevations of straight down, 60° up from there, and 120° up from there. The post work will also be reduced by 95%.More time to shoot more of these stellar creations! Can't wait to try one myself, now that I realize how easy the shooting is, and that only 12 images need to be stitched together in post to create the same results!
if you guys do this with stills i would love to see your results...
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I did these 2 panoramas using a P2V+ taking about 20 photos (every 45 degrees and then tilted half-way down every 45 degrees and one final shot pointing straight down). Stitched together automatically using PanoramaStudio:
http://dronealps.com/portfolio/le-tour-360/
http://dronealps.com/portfolio/morzine-360/
(find and click "View on Google Maps" to go full screen)
http://dronealps.com/portfolio/le-tour-360/
http://dronealps.com/portfolio/morzine-360/
(find and click "View on Google Maps" to go full screen)
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I love Proof of Concepts! It works! Thanks for sharing yours, and establishing that Google Maps will do the heavy lifting with the necessary files!
Once you had the panorama stitched, what else did you need to do, to create the interactive embedded viewer on your webpage, along with the Google Maps viewing capability?
Think I found you in the second one:
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I exported the entire panorama as a single JPG and uploaded it to Google (I think via one of their official panorama/photo apps for Google Maps). Then I could click "share" to get the embed code for my site.
awesome, thanks for the google details...
i will be flying this evening, capturing photos
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...and 12 MB stills instead of 4 MB extracted video stills, for 3x the resolution of the final output!
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Awesome! Any links or suggestions on where to find the official Google panorama/photo apps for Google Maps to use for the uploading of the entire panorama to Google?
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Had a break in the weather here so based on suggestions from this thread I went up again and did a "redo" using only stills snapped with the camera instead of taking video and extracting the frames. I went a little crazy taking a couple hundred photos but was easy.
New version using 4,000 x 3,000 pixel camera shots
http://theitalianpalace.com/tipv2/tip360v2.htm
I am not going to give my opinion on which one I think looks better - want to see what everyone thinks. I am convinced however we need an "app for that" via the API to do this automatically.
Original version using 3840 x 2160 extracted movie frames
http://theitalianpalace.com/tip360.htm
Interesting observation - the final jpg for the new version is roughly the same size as the original despite the fact that the camera only pics are higher resolution each.
Had a break in the weather here so based on suggestions from this thread I went up again and did a "redo" using only stills snapped with the camera instead of taking video and extracting the frames. I went a little crazy taking a couple hundred photos but was easy.
New version using 4,000 x 3,000 pixel camera shots
http://theitalianpalace.com/tipv2/tip360v2.htm
I am not going to give my opinion on which one I think looks better - want to see what everyone thinks. I am convinced however we need an "app for that" via the API to do this automatically.
Original version using 3840 x 2160 extracted movie frames
http://theitalianpalace.com/tip360.htm
Interesting observation - the final jpg for the new version is roughly the same size as the original despite the fact that the camera only pics are higher resolution each.
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Holly Cow!
So great! Muolto Bello!!
It reminds me when i hack my previous Samsung III, with the SphereMode from S4...lolol
P.S - There is a oficial site where you can upload the spherephotos...maybe you can try use it!
So great! Muolto Bello!!
It reminds me when i hack my previous Samsung III, with the SphereMode from S4...lolol
P.S - There is a oficial site where you can upload the spherephotos...maybe you can try use it!
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I didn't use an app actually, just uploaded to here: http://www.google.com/maps/views and it automatically recognized that it was a 360 panorama...
I tried to upload to google but it said "Upload failed: Image too big". The JPG is 24mb. What size was yours?
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i used 26 pics, panorama studio and uploaded stitched jpg to google maps views
i didn't buy panorama studio yet, so i have the watermark.
tell me if this is working correctly, looks ok on my laptop...
https://www.google.com/maps/views/u...384243519922?gl=us&heading=0&pitch=66&fovy=51
i didn't buy panorama studio yet, so i have the watermark.
tell me if this is working correctly, looks ok on my laptop...
https://www.google.com/maps/views/u...384243519922?gl=us&heading=0&pitch=66&fovy=51
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