Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography [With CDROM]

by Corinna Jacobs

Book Overview

Panoramas have a captivating effect, whether integrated in a personal homepage or professionally used for product presentations. Written in a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand format, this book details all of the necessary steps involved in panoramic photography: from the production of digital and analog picture sequences, 'stitching' using software tools such as REALVIZ Stitcher and PanoTools, all the way to publishing interactive panoramas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540211403
• ISBN13: 9783540211402
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Good Introduction to Virtual Photography

Interactive Panoramas is a good introduction to a photographer thinking about adding this type of media to their product list. It covers cameras, lenses, software and equipment. It even includes Demo versions of some of the popular Virtual Imaging software although the technology is changing so fast, the versions are a little old now.

the whole world of digital panoramic photography

Software manuals come and go, as fast as software versions. This is not the case. This book is quite unique, is one-of-a-kind, an "all ways and softwares existing to do this" manual. But not only. Is a book on immersive imaging itself, leading the reader through the whole process, from taking the pictures to the final way to show them, in presentations or over the web. The amazing thing is that quite all workflows are considered, with any kind of camera, hadrware, software and result combination. Any software has his own detailed and exaustive explanation, its features etcetera. A vademecum, able to lead you in the world of creating panoramas and VR objects, even if you do not know anything about it. But it is so complete that even an expert can use it as reference. Simple language, very good diagrams, pictures, snapshots and explanation, and very tidy and clear. Well, it is like a complete surfing on the net, through thousand pages, tutorials, links and bonus, trying to understand how these tings works, plus some months trying to make work many software demos. All this work is done and put in a tidy form for you, in this book. And it is something that remains, over the aging of softwares, since it gives you all the informations and links you need to stay up to date. Dr. Luca Vascon Teacher in immersive imaging technologies. IUAV University of Venice, Italy.