Blogs

Well this is my first blog, I'll use this blog to collect all my experiences while I'm working in my GSoC's project, I also would like to thank all the community for the support you gave me through the GSoC's selection process.

This is just the beginning, I hope and desire that all the students can success in their GSoC's project.

This is just an introductory message of my GSOC blog.

I am trying to locate an experienced software author/engineer to write a specialized application for a new technology I am currently working on. Any suggestions or inquiries should be sent to: kmm@infocusmp.com
Experience in writing complex 360 imaging algorithms is a must. Thanks
Mac

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 but there is still no update for the Drupal theme which is the basis for the old PanoTools.org theme. For the moment we switched the theme to "bluemarine" which is compatible to IE7.

As some of you may know I currently play around with Flash. I made some tests with video to come across the Webcam feature... and than I remembered the Pano Metting and the visit at Tim MacMillan's Studio and the talk with Bruno about a software based time slice camera.

A question that is almost never asked, and much more rarely discussed, is how to "frame" a 360x180 panoramic photo. (Naturally, if you have less than a full sphere, you *do* have to make framing decisions on what to keep in the shot and what to exclude, but that's not the quandary here.) I've been thinking about this lately in the context of improving my photographic skills.

A little background first: I'm a 3D artist and retoucher, and nothing even close to a professional photographer. Therefore, my thoughts on the subject are going to be a little different from most, but we each come from somewhere, right? In any case, because I am definitely not a "pro shooter" I struggle with things like composition and lighting in my "framed" regular photos (and, boy, do I use my Photoshop skills afterwards), but lighting, and the "quality" of light, are almost the same in a 360x180 pano as they are in a single frame photo. It is the composition of the shot, or the "framing," that I'm wondering about now.

Because all public available archives for proj-imim and the old PanoTools list have been removed from gmane I have added these archives to this site.
Now you can search again for all the valuable messages from the old lists with the drupal build in search. Also all messages from the PanoToolsNG list are automatically added to the archives within 5-10 minutes and are automatically threaded.
The the URL for the archive is http://www.panotools.org/mailarchive.
I hope you find this new feature useful.

Hey Folks, I recently got back from SIGGRAPH, the Association of Computing Machinery's annual blowout convention for the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Graphics. (Heh heh... SIG-GRAPH, get it?) I'm sure that kind of description makes it sound like the most fun you can have on two legs, right? Actually, it is a great convention for all kinds of people, not just graphics programmers and visual nerds (although they have plenty to do at SIGGRAPH as well). About 20,000 people attended this year, and there were over 100 companies showing their wares on the Expo floor, and lots of great advances in computer graphics were discussed and revealed.

I played around that last days with drupal and I must say... I love it! It is easy to use, you can add tons of modules and you can have maps attached to each post! For example this one:

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