Sections » 3D http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections The ramblings of a British Entomologist Fri, 28 May 2010 16:54:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rotatable Type Specimen Photographs http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections/archives/804 http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections/archives/804#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:17:25 +0000 L. Livermore http://www.locusviridis.co.uk/sections/?p=804 I was sent a link today for a Brownewell Photography which specialises in 360° photography, including taking photos of type specimens. The previews on the site are composed of 20-30 photographs to give the illusion of 360°, which works well enough. You are given rotational control of the photos through Flash, as opposed to some other 360° images which use GIFs that you cannot control.

A quick search for 360 degree photography came up with a site (Red Door VR) which sells photographic turntables that had “click stop” intervals. They also recommended the program Object2VR to produce panoramas with Flash-based controls.

I think we will start to see more of these panoramic specimen images, although the major constraint will be the time it takes to produce them.

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