{"id":5245,"date":"2017-09-18T15:38:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2017-09-18T15:38:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:38:45","slug":"360-degree-panorama-software-with-a-normal-panoramic-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5245","title":{"rendered":"360 degree Panorama software with a normal panoramic image"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always try to think of unusual ways of using equipment or software to see what the results are like. So I thought I would try putting a standard panorama into a 360 editor. The first thing I had to do was cut it to 2 x 1 landscape format. This is my staring image (it is the fountain in the Exotic Garden at East Ruston Old Vicarage):<\/p>\n

\"start<\/p>\n

Put it in the editor (Insta 360 Studio) and play with the parameters. First is a ‘crystal ball’:<\/p>\n

\"crystal<\/p>\n

Although you can obviously see the join at the top, I like the way the foliage curves around the fountain. With a different photograph it may be possible to disguise it. Now we have a ‘rectilinear’:<\/p>\n

\"rectilinear\"<\/p>\n

Again the foliage curves round the fountain but in this view the fountain gets distorted. If I crop the top and bottom to remove the vanishing points this would be quite acceptable. Now for a first little planet:<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/p>\n

This one just doesn’t work. let’s try adjusting the viewpoint:<\/p>\n

\"little<\/p>\n

The concept has potential but the image doesn’t quite work. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always try to think of unusual ways of using equipment or software to see what the results are like. So I thought I would try putting a standard panorama into a 360 editor. The first thing I had to do was cut it to 2 x 1 landscape format. This is my staring image … Continue reading “360 degree Panorama software with a normal panoramic image”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,52,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-360-degree-images","category-garden","category-little-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}