Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Kensington Palace - 360 Degree Interior Panoramas

The finished set of 360 degree fisheye style panoramas of selected interiors at Kensington Palace. Technically known as an equirectangular projections, these were made from about 36 separate images stitched together and rendered into a spherical image.
There are many problems associated with recording wall paintings and interiors one of which is the difficulty arising from trying to capture curved surfaces and represent them accurately in a 2D image. Similar to trying to draw a map of the world without distortion at the poles. We're hoping that by using panoramic projections we don't just get one image which captures the curved surface in one, which would hugely assist the conservation process, but a useful by product is having the ability to produce interactive 360 degree images too.



The Cupola Room


The Duchess of Kent's Dressing Room


The Privy Chamber


The Presence Chamber


The Queen's Dining Room


The Queen's Closet


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1 comments:

JP Lavoie said...

Interesting square panoramic images.
Have you considered presenting them in interactive 360 photos? See my site for example.
www.photojpl.com