New tutorial, creating gores for assembling globes

[Bruno Postle]

I was asked again how to do this. So here is a tutorial for the
technique I used for making real inflatable spheres of panoramic
images:

http://wiki.panotools.org/Creating_Gores

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Bruno

[Bob Bright]

Nice tutorial, Bruno -- thanks! One of my youngsters is busy taping
together a globe at this very moment.

Attached is a hugin template that will speed things up for those
interested in trying your technique. To use it, create a new hugin
project, and load 12 copies of your equirectangular image. Select "File
> Apply Template" and choose gores.pto. Switch to the "Stitcher" tab,
change the output width if you desire, and hit "Stitch now!". That's
all there is to it. Print your images, and go find some scissors and
tape. :-)

Cheers,
BBB

[Dale Beams]

Would love to do this with a philosphere


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[Bob Bright]

OK, attached are hugin templates for building a philosphere.

Usage: Start a new hugin project, and load 8 copies of your equirectangular image (any size is fine).  Select "File > Apply Template" and choose philosphere-t1.pto.  Switch to the "Stitcher" tab, hit "Stitch now!" and enter "t1" as the output prefix.  (Don't change the output width/height before stitching, or you won't be able to arrange the pieces with Philo's .psd templates.)  Load another copy of the equirectangular image (for a total of 9), apply philosphere-s1.pto, and output with prefix "s1".  Repeat for philosphere-s2.pto.

Now you have the 26 faces of your philosphere.  Arrange them with Philo's Photoshop templates (available at http://www.philohome.com/rhombicuboctahedron/rhombicuboctahedron.htm; the templates also work fine in the gimp), print, fold, cut out and tape.  The whole process from start to finished product takes about 20-30 minutes.

Cheers,

BBB
http://VictoriaVR.ca

[ChristopherR]

Hi Bob,
I just tried your template for the gores - works fantastic, thanks.
Since this is the first time I'm using templates in Hugin, I've got
another question. It should be even easier to use templates to create
cube faces from an equirectangular panorama. Does anybody have a
template for that?
Thanks,
Chris

>  gores.pto
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[Bruno Postle]

On Sat 12-Nov-2011 at 23:59 -0800, ChristopherR wrote:

> I just tried your template for the gores - works fantastic, thanks.
> Since this is the first time I'm using templates in Hugin, I've got
> another question. It should be even easier to use templates to create
> cube faces from an equirectangular panorama. Does anybody have a
> template for that?

Attached, a .pto template for generating cubefaces. This was
actually created with the erect2cubic tool which has various options
like being able to change the view direction etc...

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Bruno