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360° Panoramas If a picture is worth a thousand words then a panorama must be worth ten thousand, especially a 360° panorama where you can look all around. |
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“Letter Box” Panoramas Panoramas are straightforward to create from images from just about any camera, with the help of low cost software. |
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Links to Panorama Related Sites and Software |
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Measurements from 360° (Spherical) Panoramas 360° Panoramas have properties that can enable Angles (both Horizontal and Vertical) to be derived from various projections in the same way as using a Theodolite. The Angles measured from two or more 360° Panoramas can be used to derive Measurements and Co-ordinates. |
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Nodal Ninja Nodal Ninja is a specially designed spherical tripod head allowing the photographer to adjust a camera and lens so the “entrance pupil” (front nodal point) is exactly over its correct rotational axis. Their web site states “The lightest smallest panoramic tripod head on the market today. Nodal Ninja is a solution for both amateurs and professionals alike that seek precision, portability, reliability as well as top notch support.” |
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The No Parallax Point Some notes on the No Parallax Point and using it for 360° (Spherical) panoramas. |
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Finding the Nodal Point of a Lens For a lens to be used effectively for Photographic Intersection and taking certain types of Panoramas, such as full 360° Panoramas, the location of the Nodal Point (or more correctly, the Entrance Pupil) must be accurately determined. |
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Mapped No Parallax Points Results from determining the location of the No Parallax Point (Nodal Point) of a selection of lenses. |
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Determination of the No Parallax Point of a Lens Using a Laser When the laser beam travels along the path of a ray that meets the No Parallax Point (NPP) or Nodal Point of a lens system, a very bright spot is seen on a surface (white card) placed behind the lens and the ray can then be drawn onto the paper. These rays can be constructed for a variety of angles of incidence and the NPP determined. |
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Determination of the No Parallax Point of a Lens Using Pins & Tape Measure This method uses the location of ‘pins’ registered with the points on a ‘tape measure’ they cover to construct the rays back to the lens position. |
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Spherical-Panoramas-for-HDS-Point-Clouds This presentation has been prepared for the capture of Spherical Panoramas for use with data scanned with Leica Laser Scanners, but the information is also useful to anyone wishing to create Spherical Panoramas in their own right. To view this file you will require Acrobat Reader. If you do not already have a copy, visit the Acrobat site to download the version for your operating system. |
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