Re: [Pipmak-Devel] Single 360 panoramic images

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

MacMan104 wrote:
> I have tried your program and think its fantastic.

Thanks!

> But one thing that would make this even better is being able to use a
> single panoramic image, using a spherical map, instead of a cubic map
> with 6 images.
> 
> Please let me know if this is a posability.

This is certainly possible. It just hasn't been implemented yet because
cubic clearly seems the best of the usual formats for full panoramas to 
me (most uniform distribution of resolution).

In the meantime, you can just convert your equirectangular panoramas to 
cubic. On the Mac, one (slightly hackish) way is to use MakeCubic 
<http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/index.html> 
to make a cubic QTVR movie and then use FileJuicer 
<http://echoone.com/filejuicer/> to extract the JPEGs from it, but I'm 
sure there's also lots of software that can do it directly. You'll 
probably find something on <http://wiki.panotools.org/>.

  -Christian