You need more than just a tripod. While using a tripod is better than going handheld; a tripod still moves the focal point back and forth while it's being rotated because it's rotating on the base of the camera and not in the middle of the lens somewhere, so you get parallax distortion.

Brian Cluff

On 03/08/2016 04:11 PM, Michael wrote:
not using the tripod must be why it isn't finding any control points
automatically.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Brian Cluff <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    When making panoramas inside you MUST use some sort of rig to spin
    the camera perfectly on it's focal point.  That's the only way to
    make sure that you aren't introducing a lot of parallax distortion.
    If you are outside you can often get away with just taking a bunch
    of pictures in a circle because objects in the picture are far
    enough away that a few inches won't be noticeable, but when you are
    inside just a couple of inches of difference in the pictures causes
    a tremendous amount of distortion that Hugin won't be able to deal
    with automatically, and even if you manually set control points, the
    control points won't make sense to Hugin because the distortion will
    skew the math.  It is possible to manually set control points but
    you have to only set points on objects that are all the same
    distance from the camera.  If you try to set control points that are
    at different distances, that's where you run into trouble.  It's
    like when you hold you your finger in front of your face and
    alternately close one eye and then the other and your finger jumps
    back and forth... the same things happens inside Hugin and it really
    doesn't like it.

    On a related note, just because I have time to type more, you can
    use Hugin to stitch panoramas of distant objects that have smaller
    objects in the foreground, such as a sign at the grand canyon
    telling you not to jump off, that you don't want in the picture, by
    purposely taking pictures that would normally introduce distortion.
    All you have to do is make sure that you only set control points on
    the furthest away landscape that you really want, and then use
    Hugin's masking feature to mask out the object (sign in this case)
    that you don't want and when it gets done you will have a nice
    signless pictures of your landscape.

    Brian Cluff

    On 03/08/2016 02:52 PM, Michael wrote:

        Yeah, I spent a long time putting control points in and it
        didn't seem
        to like to do the inside spherical panorama.

        On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz
        <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

             Unfortunately, I am not familiar with any other applications to
             accomplish the goal at hand.

             On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Michael <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>
             <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                 well..... I guess that doesn't help so much

                 On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Michael
        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
                 <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                     I'll tell ya, I don't know why it isn't working but it
                     isn't. So I was just about to ask the group if they
        know of
                     a tutorial when the thought occurred to me that I
        should
                     google for it first. That turned up:

        http://arachnoid.com/drones/drone_images.html

                     On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Brian Cluff
                     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                         Have you tried clicking "Fit" under the Move
        and Drag
                         tab.  There might be more of your panorama that
        is off
                         the display and is being cropped.

                         Brian


                         On 03/06/2016 10:02 AM, Michael wrote:

                             I just did it again and all the pictures
            showed up
                             correctly but it only did halp of the
            sphere. Does my
                             'projection need to be something specific?

                             On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Michael
                             <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
            <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                                 I tried that about an hour ago but it
            turned six
                                 of the images 180 degrees for some
            reason. I
                                 looked at what it was reading the data
            from and
                                 the pictures were fine.

                                 On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Brian
            Cluff
                                 <<mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>
                                 <mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                                     Hugin can make 360 spherical pianos
            without
                                     any special effort. Just put all
            the images
                                     into Hugin that make up the sphere
            and it will
                                     do the test. The tutorial that you
            linked to
                                     is how to make an HDR spherical
            panorama,
                                     that's a little more effort than I
            think you
                                     want to do for real estate photos.

                                     Brian Cluff

                                     On March 6, 2016 6:33:03 AM MST,
            Michael
                                     <[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>>
                                     wrote:

                                         I was sitting here thinking
            that hugin
                                         should be able to do this and
            that someone
                                         should suggest it to a
            developer. Then I
                                         thought someone might have done
            that
                                         already. So I did a websearch!
            Look at
                                         what I found:

            http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/enfuse-360/en.shtml

                                         On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:13
            PM, Brian
                                         Cluff
                                         <<mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>

                                         <mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                                             Try:
                                             apt-get install python-opengl

                                             Brian Cluff

                                             On 03/05/2016 06:30 PM,
            Michael wrote:

                                                 I thought about it and
            think I
                                                 realized the error of
            my ways;
                                                 python.exe
                                                 is because python is not
                                                 automatically in
            Windows like with
                                                 Linux so I
                                                 don't need that program.
                                                 Unfortunately when I
            tried to run
                                                 the other
                                                 program:

                                                 $ python PhotoSphere.py
                                                 Traceback (most recent
            call last):
                                                    File
            "PhotoSphere.py", line 21,
                                                 in <module>
                                                      from OpenGL.GL
            import *
                                                 ImportError: No module
            named OpenGL.GL

                                                 so I apt-get install
            opengl.gl <http://opengl.gl>
                                                 <http://opengl.gl>
                                                 <http://opengl.gl> .
            Unfortunately
                                                 I get
                                                 the same error after
            installing
            opengl.gl <http://opengl.gl> <http://opengl.gl>
                                                 <http://opengl.gl> . Then I
                                                 tried apt-get install
            openGL.GL
                                                 but am informed that
            the program is
                                                 already installed.



                                                 On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at
            8:39 PM,
                                                 Michael

            <<mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>

            <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>

            <mailto:<mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>

            <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote:

                                                     Ifound something
            that might be
                                                 sorta wahat I'm looking
            for.

            
<http://meestuff.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-photo-sphere-viewer-for-desktop.html>http://meestuff.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-photo-sphere-viewer-for-desktop.html

                                                 .
                                                     It is suppossed to
            work with
                                                 Linux.
                                                     I download the file and
                                                 extract it but there are no
                                                 instructions to
                                                     install it. I
            opened the bat
                                                 file and the contents
            of it seemed to
                                                     be instructions for
            installing
                                                 but unfortuatly:

                                                         bmike1@MikesBeast

            ~/Documents/Programs/PhotoSphereBundle
                                                 $
                                                         ./App/python.exe
                                                 ./App/PhotoSphere.py

                                                     bash: ./App/python.exe:
                                                 Permission denied

                                                         bmike1@MikesBeast

            ~/Documents/Programs/PhotoSphereBundle
                                                 $
                                                         .\App\python.exe
                                                 .\App\PhotoSphere.py

                                                     .Apppython.exe:
            command not found
                                                     Please, how do I
            install it?

                                                     On Fri, Mar 4, 2016
            at 4:03
                                                 PM, Michael

            <<mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>

            <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>


            <mailto:<mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>

            <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote:

                                                         Thank you very much
                                                 Anthony. This sounds
            very much
                                                 like what I
                                                         would like to use.
                                                         When I searched for
                                                 'street google street view'
                                                 yesterday I
                                                         could not find
            it in the
                                                 playstore. I searched for
                                                 photospere in
                                                         google  and
            that search
                                                 revealed that  it was
            put on
                                                 android 4.2
                                                         and my phone is
            only a
                                                 2.2. Is there a way to
            download it (or
                                                         something
            similar) to my
                                                 computer?


                                                         On Fri, Mar 4,
            2016 at
                                                 1:58 PM, Anthony
            Radzykewycz


            <<mailto:[email protected]
            
<mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>

            <mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>


            <mailto:<mailto:[email protected]
            
<mailto:[email protected]>>[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>


            <mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>>>
                                                 wrote:

                                                             The app
            will guide you
                                                 on how many pictures to
            take and use
                                                             circular
            guides that
                                                 you need to 'cover.' It
            takes the
                                                             pictures
            when you have
                                                 'covered the circle.
             From there, the
                                                             app
            stitches it all
                                                 together for you and
            then you can
                                                 upload
                                                             it to
            Google maps. If
                                                 you wanted to embed the
            photoshphere,
                                                             they have
            an api that
                                                 you can sign up for to
            showcase that.
                                                             I hope to
            work on
                                                 mapping out paths
            between the

            photospheres, but we
                                                 have not really started
            on that
                                                 portion
                                                             at all. Try
            it out. I
                                                 was really amazed at
            the ease of use
                                                             of the app.




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