A Walk In The Park
This platform gives me an ideal opportunity to show my 360 pictures, where relevant I can also link the pictures and I can give descriptions.
This first picture I'm describing my history up to this point more than the content of the picture itself.
There are various other pictures from this location which I can delve deeper into the description of Godalming.
My first attempt at immersive photography was back in the year 2000, using a Sony Cybershot camera with software which stitched together images to create one large panorama. This panorama wasn't stretched to give an accurate representation of what your view would actually be like so was quite limited. Unfortunately I've not been able to find any of my early attempts at 360 pictures.
My next delve into 360 photography wasn't until 2012 when I got my first smart phone. With the ability to use apps, pictures taken on a mobile phone could again be stitched together to build a larger panorama. Now the software was better at warping pictures to give correct perspective. The problem at this point was there wasn't a clear standard for these images so they could only be viewed within the app.
Because the app was discontinued the few test panoramic pictures that I took with it were lost.
This picture of Philips Memorial Park in Godalming, from 2013, is the earliest panoramic picture I have and was taken on the LG Nexus phone. This was the first phone which I had that supported panoramic pictures as part of the standard camera.
Click and drag around the picture and you'll see that the software is far from perfect. While clouds and grass can be forgiving of errors when stitching the various pictures together, hard lines such as the flag pole will show up errors if they cross between two individual images within the panorama.
The process of taking one of these pictures involves moving around a central point and tilting the camera up and down to cover all the angles. You'll notice in this picture I've ommited the sky.
Because the entire panorama is made of multiple pictures the quality is reasonably good.
Tags:Coding, Testing, 360, CSS, JS, AFrame
This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Tuesday 26th Apr 2022.
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