The panoramas in this folder are some samples of how QuickTime VR
can be used in "active" settings.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
The balloon fiesta takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico every year in October, and in 1996 broke many records with the attendance of over 150,000 spectators per day and 800 balloons.
A Guiness world record was set by successfully launching over 600 balloons in one hour!
If your new to QuickTime VR, you'll soon learn the difficulties of shooting panoramas where moving objects and people are in the scene. These balloon panos were shot with a 19mm lens on a standard 35mm camera in portrait format (12 shots) on a Kaidan tripod head.
Obviously, by the time you shoot the twelfth photo, the people and the balloons have moved quite a bit from the first shot. That's where Photoshop comes in! I open the first and second photos in Photoshop and compare the two for movement. Using the cloning tool, I can move things around until common objects to both photos line up. The process is repeated with the second and third photos and so on until all "moving" objects have been adjusted. Once you get the hang of it, it's not as hard as it sounds.
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The "Gull Island" pano was done in three separate software packages. The gulls were modeled in Ray Dream Studio, surface maps made in Photoshop, and the whole thing rendered in Bryce 2.
The "Heart" object movie consists of 360 still images rendered in Ray Dream Studio
(36 images at 10 degree intervals on each of 10 horizontal planes)
The "Camera" shows how movement can be incorporated into object movies by shooting the same horizontal plane several times and adjusting the subject with each pass.
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