Sunday 9 October 2011

Research

Panoramic Photography

"Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. While there is no formal division between "wide-angle" and "panoramic" photography, "wide angle" normally refers to a type of lens, but using this lens type does not necessarily make an image a panorama."

In my own words:

Pamoramic Photography is a method used to create images with an extended view. To make a panoramic picture you need to take a series of photographs and then stitch them together in order to create one long image. Below are a couple of examples of panoramic pictures.



VR Photography

"VR photography, or virtual reality photography, is the interactive viewing of wide angle panoramic photographs, generally encompassing a 360 degree circle or a spherical view.
VR photography is the art of capturing or creating a complete scene as a single image, as viewed when rotating about a single central position. Normally created by stitching together a number of photographs taken in a multi-row 360 degree rotation; the complete image can also be a totally computer generated effect, or a composite of photography and computer generated objects.
VR Panoramas are viewed through movie players, such as Apple's QuickTime software, which may be part of a Web browser plug-in or a stand-alone player application."

In my own words:
VR Photography (Virtual Reality Photography), is a way of viewing panoramic photograph interactivly having a 360 degree angle. To create a VR photograph you need to take a series of images in a 360 degree rotation and then stitch them together to create one image. To view a VR panorama you can do it through movie players, for example Apple's QuickTime software.

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