2008 on Stuff

Panoramas from Google in Mountain View

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:34:56 +0000

Some ’little planet’ panoramas of the attendees of the 2008 Summer of Code Summit at Google headquarters in Mountain View. I have some more pictures on Flickr and some more photos from San Francisco also on Flickr.

Patching spherical panoramas with pafextract

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:34:56 +0000

This is a quick tutorial on using the pafextract and panoglview tools to patch the nadir or any other part of a panorama.

Land Rover sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:34:56 +0000

Gerry Judah’s website

de zeen: Land Rover Sculpture by Gerry Judah

Blender nation: Land Rover Sculpture designed using Blender

Building Design: Gerry Judah unveils his Rovers’ return

Capita Bobrowski website

Capita Symonds: Capita Bobrowski build iconic sculpture

This was a lot of fun, I created the shape by pushing and twisting a sphere in Blender, then wrote some custom perl code to slice it up into the ribbons of steel. It looks complicated, it was! The slices were created so that all the steel members were either in a vertical or horizontal plane, there are only five angles in the whole thing and all welds are right-angled - These are the kind of things needed to make something like this buildable.

Panorama animated with Blender

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:34:56 +0000

I’ve written a tutorial describing a technique for rendering a video from a spherical panorama. In this case we are using Blender, an open source 3d modeling package, but other similar tools can probably be used to equal effect.

The way this works is to load a panorama as the background for an empty scene; then set keys for the pan, tilt and zoom of the camera as you would for any normal animation. Here’s a link to the youtube video, this is it on Flickr, it seems to embed ok: