360 Panorama

[spacewizard]

Sharing another 360 panorama shot on the Neo!

Handmade DJI Neo pano of a snowy park with a bridge over a creek

Handmade DJI Neo pano of a snowy park with a bridge over a creek

kuula.co

 

[Chrislaf]

Sharing another 360 panorama shot on the Neo!

Handmade DJI Neo pano of a snowy park with a bridge over a creek

Handmade DJI Neo pano of a snowy park with a bridge over a creek

kuula.co

All that work paid off! That turned out pretty good.

It’s amazing what can be done with a US$179 drone.

Chris

 

[spacewizard]

Thanks!

One thing that's a bit of a bummer is that the sky cuts off very low. I completely forgot to tilt the gimbal up and get more sky in, as I'd intended to. Luckily the sky is so monochromatic it's not that noticeable.

 

[Chrislaf]

Thanks!

One thing that's a bit of a bummer is that the sky cuts off very low. I completely forgot to tilt the gimbal up and get more sky in, as I'd intended to. Luckily the sky is so monochromatic it's not that noticeable.

If you want, I can run your images through PTGui Pro and see how it does. It has a fill gaps selection that should work well for an overcast day. You would just have to upload them to something like Google Drive and share the link with me.

Chris

 

[spacewizard]

That'd be great - I can upload the original TIF. Will DM.

 

[Chrislaf]

That'd be great - I can upload the original TIF. Will DM.

I will be interesting to see how PTGui Pro does with your images so you can compare.

Chris

 

[spacewizard]

One more Neo panorama -- this is literally nothing but a parking lot.

The parking lot was mostly empty when I started flying around but there happened to be an even there and it filled with cars while I was there. Just for the heck of it I tried doing a pano. I took three rows of pics, one straight out, one high, one low, and a nadir. I missed a bit on the bottom and a lot on the top and filled them in in GIMP.

I only needed to do a little manual work in Hugin to get them to stitch successfully, which was amazing, given how much of a pain it's been sometimes in the past!

Let me stress again: this is a super boring thing to take a picture of. It's just a parking lot. But I was happy to get it to stitch so successfully so I thought I'd share, just as part of the general "let's prove that a Neo can do panos despite totally not being designed for that sort of thing" theme.

Just a parking lot, experimenting with doing panos with the Neo

Just a parking lot, experimenting with doing panos with the Neo

kuula.co

 

[Chrislaf]

Did some more experimenting with 360 panos on the NEO in a complex environment with objects close to the NEO. Here is a 360 pano taken about 1.5m above the ground underneath tree branches. There are a number of stitching errors but I was surprised at how well it turned out. Used PTGui Pro to stitch 100 images.

Chris

Kuula Link - Pano under tree branches

View attachment TinyPlanet NEO Pano under branches.jpg

 

[spacewizard]

Did some more experimenting with 360 panos on the NEO in a complex environment with objects close to the NEO. Here is a 360 pano taken about 1.5m above the ground underneath tree branches. There are a number of stitching errors but I was surprised at how well it turned out. Used PTGui Pro to stitch 100 images.

Chris

Kuula Link - Pano under tree branches

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Oh that is really nice and cozy, the pano. And the tiny planet is crazy looking!

 

[Chrislaf]

Oh that is really nice and cozy, the pano. And the tiny planet is crazy looking!

Yeah, it interesting what your eye sees and how you perceive it and then how it turns out from the camera.

I sure wish there was some way to automate the pano process on the NEO to take advantage of the wide angle lens.

Chris

 

[spacewizard]

Yeah, it interesting what your eye sees and how you perceive it and then how it turns out from the camera.

I sure wish there was some way to automate the pano process on the NEO to take advantage of the wide angle lens.

Chris

Agreed