panoramas

How do Google Maps do their panoramas?

How do Google Maps do their panoramas in Street View? Yeah, I know its Flash, but how do they skew bitmaps with Correct Texture Mapping? Are they doing it on the pixel-level like most Flash 3D engines?, or just applying some tricky transformation to the Bitmaps in the Movieclips? ...

How can I programatically stitch many images into one?

I am looking for a way to write a script that will take around 400 png images and merge/combine/stitch them into one. I have spent days playing and failing with image processing libraries for Python and C++. If anyone could point me to a specific language or library that you know has this feature that would be awesome. ...

PTViewer newPanoFromList() problem

I tried to switch between 2 virtual tour images and each time when I switch, it will move to a position I want. But When I call moveTo() following newPanoFromList(), it will do the startAutoPan(), and not move to the position I want. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-t...

Set flashvars of a SWF in Flex before loadComplete

I have a Flash applet which I want to embed in a Flex file this loads a panorama file inside a SWF player (Immervision's PurePlayer)- I am using the following code: <mx:SWFLoader id="mapLoader" width="740" height="588" source="../bin-debug/PurePlayer.swf?flashvars='panorama=../bin-debug/untitled.ivp'" /> The applet load...

Looking for an alternative to PTViewer for 360 Panorama

Hi, I've been using PTViewer but it is causing some issues with looking for the ptdefault.html everytime and I'm wondering what other options are out there? Thanks, Denis ...

How to project Lat/Lon coordinates on a panorama image?

Hi all, I have two sets of Latitude/Longitude coordinates. The first one is the coordinates of an equirectangular panorama picture. The second one of a point in sight. So it is on the picture. I need the x/y coordinates of the second point to draw it on the picture. In javascript. Example equirectangular panorama picture and applicat...

Generate "spherical" panorama in 3D software

Lets say I have a 3D model of room in some format. How can I programmatically render "spherical" panorama from some point of room (kind of like the "Google street view" uses)? I suppose it can be done in Blender? It's better if it will be done in Linux. ...

javascript: lat/lon, lat1/lon1, bearing, distance to x,y screen coordinates?

Hi all, how to project a lat/lon hotspot onto an 360x180 degree panorama image? Using javascript? Real data: lat/lon in decimal degrees and altitude in meters: Camera coordinates: 49.994249, 8.66539, 2 Hotspot coordinates: 49.994163, 8.665388, 2 Distance camera to hotspot in meters: 9.55 Compass bearing camera to hotspot in degrees ...

Can ScrollWheel be disabled in a custom street view?

I am building a site and I have a page which takes an address and uses it to generate a 2D roadmap style google-map and then next to it, the street view for that address. My problem is that these two maps span almost the entire width of the site and the user is likely to have their mouse go over it when scrolling down the page and get ...

is there a panorama lib to use for ipad?

recently I've been given a project which need to display a spherical panorama view. Normally on iphone i've been using panoramaGL for some time but for ipad, i dont have any luck to use it any more. I can compile the lib with some minor warnings. but when i try to link the lib to my real project, it just keep telling me that PLTexture i...

360° panorama librarys for ios

are there any libraries or classes out there to show a 360 degree panorama on the iphone? i found this here: http://code.google.com/p/panoramagl/ but its not up to date and only for old versions of ios. i'm thankfull for any link that helps me to create a 360 degree panorama view on ios. thanks! ...

PanoramaGL on iOS 4.0

Did any body use the panoramaGL from http://code.google.com/p/panoramagl/ ? How did you setup the project. I have changed the base sdk to 4.0 but I am getting 75 errors.:D If not is there any free library to do 360 photo on iPhone? Please help me. ...