| House Tour | Project 2 Updated 5/5/02 |
| For Project 2 we created a 360-degree virtual reality panorama using a digital camera with tripod, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, PanaVue Image Assembler virtual-reality software, and QuickTime. | |
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Creating the panorama involved several steps. The first was to place the digital camera on a tripod and rotate it
360 degrees while snapping a photo at each successive angle.
The next, and by far most difficult, step was to "stitch" the photos together -- as seamlessly as possible -- in Adobe Photoshop. Spicing the individual snapshots together was unexpectedly challenging due to the surprising difference in lighting and proportion from one adjacent "scene-let" to the next. To further complicate the assignment, the final panorama was limited to a 30-inch width, but the total width of the 10-12 component photos was twice this. Thus to squeeze in the entire scene, the panorama's dimensions had to be adjusted at each stage in the stitching process. Applying the virtual reality software (PanaVue Image Assembler) to the panorama was the final step. The VR software creates the movie (.mov) file that your browser's QuickTime plug-in "plays." |
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Family Room and Breakfast Nook
To "tour" the rooms, click your mouse on the image and drag in the direction you wish to go, including sideways, up or down.
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