Panorama creation : different methods

Image Capture Approaches

QTVR panoramas can be created using images captured with a variety of cameras, lenses, and films, or even from computer created environments. This flexibility, though, requires that you understand the dynamics and limitations of the capture approach you use. There are four main vehicles for creating source images for a panorama:

Still Camera and Lens

Analogue (on film) or Digital

Rectilinear (wide angle or not !) or Fisheyes

by Cropping or by Stitching

Individual Picts captured around a point of rotation and then Stiched together

Parabolic mirror or mirror ball

Video Camera

Panoramic Camera

Computer Generated Source Images

PovRay, Maya, OpenGL ...

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