From the course: Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours
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Spherical projection
From the course: Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours
Spherical projection
- One of the things that's a bit tricky to initially wrap your head around, is how the panoramic images are actually wrapped. It's a bit like a globe, right? If we're taking a look at a globe and then you were to unfold that globe into a flat object it wouldn't look exactly right. - Right, when we look at a map on our wall of the world, Canada is not that big. If we look at it on a globe, it looks like the right size. - [Rich] And that's because there's some distortion as we take the large image and then have to wrap it around a 3D object. When you view a panoramic photography, particularly interactive panoramic photography, you as the viewer have navigation controls to pan left and right and tilt up and down and zoom in. As such, as you start to look around, the scene needs to react and this really leads to some different type of resolution requirements. So one of the most common ways that this is often accomplished is with a spherical projection method. Ron, what are looking at here…
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