Saturday, June 6, 2009

Vorderer Gosausee


Vorderer Gosausee in Salzkammergut


Lawinenkegel am Vorderen Gosausee in Salzkammergut

Attersee near Weissenbach


Attersee, Nähe Weissenbach in Salzkammergut

Thursday, May 28, 2009

More Panoramas from the Ebensee memorial site

The panoramas were captured in 2006. For whatever reason i have never added them to the virtual tour.

Go to the Ebensee concentration camp site virtual tour

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Some test anaglyph images...

...taken with a Pentax stereo adapter on D700+50mm



Sunday, April 26, 2009

Stereo-3D High Resolution Panorama Tests

This weekend i experimented with high resolution anaglyph panoramas. I tried to answer 2 questions that have been identified by me as most important:
- What stereo base to use for the left and right image
- Which suitable method to interconnect both panoramas to an anaglyph image

I have used the Gigapan device with a Canon G9 mounted. The stereo image was created by moving the tripod. Stitching with Autopano Giga 2 and PTGui, alignment with PTGui and manual Anaglyph creation with Gimp/PS.
It turned out that creating 2 identical panoramas was a bigger problem than expected, so i need to do some more experiments. Keep that in mind when exploring the panoramas below.

Here are 3 sample anaglyph panoramas. They are downsampled to approx. 50%, so processing the images was a little easier and faster. Click thumbnails to view the full panoramas (red-cyan glasses needed):

Meidling Train Station
Stereo base approx. 10 cm. Both panoramas were warped to fit without caring for a "consistent" stereo image. It is easiest to view but has some bent lamp poles and other inconsistencies.

Flak Tower 1
Stereo base approx. 1 meter. Good looking as a small image, but very difficult to view when zooming in. Such a panorama would need dynamic adjustment of the left and right image while viewing - just like done when at time of shooting in 3D-movies.


Flak Tower 2
Stereo base approx 10cm and manual adjustment of left and right layer to guarantee best possible viewing experience. Still - stitching inconsistenies are very noticeable.

Next step is to work with a 2 camera setup...