Assignment1: QTVR research.

pannorams where invented by an irish painter Robert Barker in the late 18th century. i found the following QTVR of a water colour version of his first panorama.



unlike the QTVRs that i will be making this one is of a painted image. therefore there are no errors in it. all the odd perspective that it shows are chosen by the artist to try and solve the problem of painting a continuos 360°.
i really like the far left section of this image because of the distance, it apears calming.

http://www.360spin.co.uk/is a website that produces QTVRs for clients to upload on there websites. in there protfolio has a large range of QTVRs of intresting locations. one of my favorats taken in the ITV studio in leeds of the Countdown studio



i find it cool to be able to look at the studio of a well known tv program and get a feel of how it is filmed. the perspective in this one is very strange, when looking at the center desk it seems like it is shrunk in the middle. this is likley because of the effects of paralax. there are a few faults in the crowd in this QTVR this is because when stitching images together moving elements will not fit together seamlessly becuse would you belive it they have moved! it is very obvious if you look at the lady talking to the audience she is blured, not much of her exsists and her feet comeout at strange angles. to aviode this happening in my QTVRs i will try to stay away from busy places and people. if i did need to have a person in my image i would make sure that they are in the center of the frame so that i do not need to overlap any section of the image with people in.

http://www.fullscreenqtvr.com/ is another website that displas QTVRs from multiple websites, unlike 360 spin they do not sell the service. here i found a link to a QTVR created on the Apollo 17 mission



this is an incredible image allowing you to see what it is really like on the moon is very strange. this piece really embodies the use of QTVRs as imersive pieces of media.