Interactive Content

I can't recall when I saw my first interactive QuickTime VR panorama, but it amazed me then; each still does even today. Being able to move around inside a 360° scene is wonderful for armchair travelers like myself. There are object movies as well that let you spin an object around various axes; however, I have only a few up, two shot a few years ago with a 1 megapixel digicam.

 

Software

• Canon Digital Photo Professional to edit the RAW images from my camera

• PTGui to stitch the images

• Photoshop CS3 to edit the resulting layered equirecentangular image

• Pano2VR to finish and output the panorama in various formats

 

Hardware

I use a Canon 350D and, for panoramas, a Nodal Ninja 3 panohead (with an updated rotary mount) and a fisheye lens. For years I used a Peleng fisheye, but it got fatally scratched in Oman.

 

Panographers and Companies

A list that will grow over time.

• Photospherix, interactive photographer in Indianapolis

• EasyPano, various panorama software for Windows and Mac

 

WWP Panoramas

You can also see more of my panoramas at the WorldWide Panorama, a quarterly event where panographers (panorama photographers, really) from around the world submit QTVR panoramas united by a certain theme. Beginning with the most recent, here are my submissions:

 

Forgotten Places: Bullet Train Museum /  新幹線資料館

Performing Arts: Traditional Japanese Archery

Time: Sekisui Sustainable Design Laboratory

Diversity: Kunitachi Chuo Library / 国立市中央図書館

Best of 2008: Bamboo Grove in Tonogaya Park / 殿ヶ谷戸庭園の竹やぶ

Elevation: Kurio Remington Village, 10F / ｸﾘｵ・ﾚﾐﾝﾄﾝ・ｳﾞｨﾚｯｼﾞ国立10F

Beginnings: Showa Kinen Park / 昭和記念公園

Sustenance: Hitotsubashi University / 一橋大学

Energy: Mansfield Roller Mill / ﾏﾝｽﾞﾌｨﾙﾄﾞ町の水車小屋

Water: Tokushima City's Delta / 徳島市の扇状地

Marketplace: Charity Auction at Sogo / 徳島そうごのオークション

Sanctuary: View from "Castle Mountain" / 徳島市の城山からの景色