TomoHawk Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 I think Macromedia has software that you can use to show 360 degree photos of things. Anybody heared of this? I looked into it once and d/l'd the software, but I kinda figured that you would need special equipment to take the photos, or at least, you'd need to buy the software to make the photos. I think it woiuld be just the thing to show off your car. Kinda like a hologram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vashonz Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Stuff like this has been around for years, apple had a decent one. I havnt dealt with any for a while. A really wide angle lense helps, the problem with *most* digital cameras is that they don't have a full 35mm chip, and you get either clipping around the edges or less than optimal detail. The other thing is that you have to keep the optical center of the camera in the same place otherwise comes out looking bad. For shooting objects it helps to have a turntable so you can keep the same settings and focal point(important) on the camera. A tuntable large enough to shoot a car on is not very common, but do exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomoHawk Posted January 23, 2004 Author Share Posted January 23, 2004 I'm not talking about any panoramic view stuf. I think you might be too. I didn't think it would be easy, like the panorama stuff is. According to what i remember, you didn't need wide-angle photos, because you're looking into the center, instead of out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nic-Rebel450CA Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 I was thinking of taking pictures of my car like that and then writing a JAVA applet to make a rotating image. There are a number of programs that help you do that, all you really need are about 6 different angles. I think the cheaper programs are the ones being used for eBay now. You are talking about something like this, right? http://www.sprintpcs.com/flash/spinny.html?x=SCP5500KIT&xClose=true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomoHawk Posted January 23, 2004 Author Share Posted January 23, 2004 I thought you would need more than 6 to get a reaaly good view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nic-Rebel450CA Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Well, yes. To get better quality, more pictures are needed. I was just speaking of a minimum. I think the best way to do it, would be if you had a large garage. In the center of the ceiling of the garage, you could attach some sort of turn-table or something else that would rotate 360deg. Then make an arm off of that which extends down from the ceiling of the garage and out to a distance of probably about 10 feet from the car (at the closest point, which would be the front and rear of the car) and have the car parked right under the center of the arm. Then you could mount your camera to that arm and just slowly move in a circle around the car and take the pictures. Then you could have every pic at equal distance, elevation, etc. A really interesting effect would be to also mount your light source to that same arm. Otherwise you could certainly use a rotating platform for the car and then keep the camera on a tri-pod and snap pictures as the car turns. I know that you can rent a compact unit from a number of companies. If you get the pics taken, you can make everything from a simple animated GIF, to a full 360deg tour of your car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomoHawk Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 Or you could just draw a big circle in a parking lot, park the car in the center, and move your camera (on a tripod) around the line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z Man377 Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Hey, I had a gif animator a friend gave me. Not sure of the name. But I just walked in a circle and took a pic everyother step of my car and truck. It doesn't look the best but it does work. http://www.1badz.com/boyz2.gif http://www.1badz.com/toy.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nismo280zEd Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 you can use pretty much any animation program to create what you are asking about. if you can't do the tripod thing... just take lots of pics... then go into photoshop and crop them so they are all centered, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomoHawk Posted February 8, 2004 Author Share Posted February 8, 2004 That animated gif is pretty good, but do you know of anything that could make a web page so you could pan around using the mouse to click on buttons (left-right, up-down)? I think that's more like what I was thinking Maybe even zoom in. thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z Man377 Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 I think i know what your talking about. Subaru of America has that to view its cars. You download the pic and use the cursor to pull the car around on the screen for different angles. I think it uses Quiktime. just look at the New line of car from subaru And they have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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