From Fishey to flash panorama 180

[hipopulation]

Hi!

Someone can explain me who to create a 180pano with this image and flashpanorama player (just buy it)

image : http://www.frenchbreaks.org/100_0035.JPG

thanks a lot!

[Aifos]

you have to convert the panorama to cube faces with other softwares before using FPP

[hipopulation]

What kind of soft do i use to convert a single fisheye image to cubic in order to have a 180° flash panorama?

thanks!

[phberlin]

What kind of camera and lens do you use actually? The picture looks rather like a ~90 degrees field of view to me..? So I'm not sure sure how you want to make a 180 degrees pano out of it.

Anyway, what you want to do is to defish your fisheye image: With a MAC, you can do this easily with DEFISH (http://www.panotools.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=DeFish) , with a PC I suggest to take HUGIN (http://hugin.sourceforge.net).

Additionally, you could try the SPI-V Fisheye Viewer (http://fieldofview.com/fev) to directly see the unwarped image.

All of the mentioned softwares are free.

Good luck!

Regards, Ph.

[Ewart]

I assume you want to create a spherical panorama (views in every direction). You will need to take at least 2x 180 degree images. Take one picture, rotate the lens around the no-parallax point (aka. nodal point) then take another pic facing opposite direction.

The easiest way to rotate accurately around the NP point is to use a bracket & tripod (www.agnos.com - looks like you have Nikon FC-E8 / FC-E9 ?)

You then need to stitch the images together. See: http://www.panoguide.com/howto/panoramas/spherical.jsp
for stitching software options (under Ultra-Wide Lenses).

Depending on the stitching software you used, you will probably end up with an equirectangular image showing the whole 360deg view. To use in FPP, you need to break this image up into 6 cube faces using DOSUP by Eric Gerds:
http://www.pinlady.net/vr/

You will end up with 6 cube face files. Convert each file to JPG and Rename in format:
YourPano_0.jpg,YourPano_1.jpg etc. Drop Pano0.swf into same folder and rename Pano0.swf to YourPano.swf. Rightclick & open YourPano.swf in IE.