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26 face 360 Shape

Jon Hassall — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:26:47 +0000

A 26-face printed object made from a recent 360 photograph. This shape turned out to be the best:

You can see more 360 shapes here.

360 shapes

Jon Hassall — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:36:34 +0000

Shapes made from 360 photos:

Cut-out template

Jon Hassall — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:06:52 +0000

This is a little too ambitious (cut-out shape). The black areas are folding tabs.

Research and Development

Jon Hassall — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:52:20 +0000

This week I have been performing highly unsecret research for MediaDroid Ltd. Prototypes:

Reminder to myself

Jon Hassall — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:38:05 +0000

Reminder to myself to read this:

Creating a Night Panorama

Today’s experiments involve this:

3D map made from photographs and laser measurements

Jon Hassall — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:39:20 +0000

I can’t wait to see more of this.. a 3D map made from photographs and laser measurements :

360 HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photograph

Jon Hassall — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:21:35 +0000

I have completed a high-quality HDR (High Dynamic Range) panorama of a garden, and it can be viewed here (requires Flash Player 10):

Panoramas from v360r.com

Jon Hassall — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:39:25 +0000

As promised, here are the latest 360 panoramas. For an interesting view, right-click while viewing, and select ‘Little Planet view’:

360 Panoramas

Jon Hassall — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:40:14 +0000

I used around 20GB of memory cards for photographs on vacation. Right now I’m processing the 360 panoramas, and should be posting them in the next day or two for your viewing pleasure. Subscribe to this blog to stay updated!

360 Panorama, Santa Monica

Jon Hassall — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:40:47 +0000

I have completed another 360 Panorama. This is for a friend from South Korea studying in Santa Monica, who wanted a way to show his parents back home what his life is like. I hope they enjoy the look into his life. Click here to view the panorama taken in Santa Monica.

Happy New Year

Jon Hassall — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:42:29 +0000

Happy 2009 everyone! I plan to keep this weblog updated more frequently this year, mentioning anything interesting I’m doing, especially with technology and photography.

I switched from using the Panosaurus panoramaic tripod head to a Nodal Ninja 3, and am having good results. I’m sure the Panosaurus is perfectly adequate, but I couldn’t for the life of me assemble it!

Some technologies that I have been experimenting with recently include Amazon Cloud Services, including the Cloudfront, S3 storage, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. I have also made use of the Amazon Mechanical Turk, and have plenty of ideas for how it could be used. The Mechanical Turk allows you to request tasks to be done by a huge human workforce of around 100,000. As an example, you could ask for 1000 voicemails to be transcribed, the workforce would transcribe them, and the result could be returned. All these services that Amazon offer are opening up many horizons.

One such horizon that perhaps shouldn’t be opened, is the fact that with just a credit card, a nefarious programmer could spawn hundreds or thousands of high-powered virtual servers, and launch Internet attacks, break encryptions etc. I hope Amazon have a strategy in place for such events so they can be avoided. Such an attack could be on something like the weakness found in MD5 SSL certificates which may be exploited using a large amount of computing power.

Panosaurus

Jon Hassall — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:47:46 +0000

I’ve just received my Panosaurus — a tripod head designed to rotate about the nodal point of a camera lens. This looks like the best way to avoid parallax error when making 360 panoramas.