How They are Created
These high resolution panoramas are made by taking 7 individual images with a camera fitted with a 10.5mm (wide-angle) lens. Six of the images are taken at 60° intervals on a horizontal axis. One image is then taken vertically at 90° to the horizontal axis e.g.
The individual images are then 'stitched' together and converted to a single 'equirectangular' image e.g.
The equirectangular image is then exported into a suitable format for viewing with a standard web browser plug-in e.g. Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Java Applet. Controls can be added to the viewer e.g.
This example shows the Locomotion railway museum in Shildon, County Durham. Typical resources required, once on-site, were 15 minutes to setup and take the images for each panorama and then, back in the digital darkroom around 15 minutes of image preparation.
See another example - St Mary's Church in Barnard Castle