This week we've taken our panoramas to the next level by using MakeCubic to create 3D spherical spaces that we can navigate.The first step is to make sure our images are seamless left-right. We do this in Photoshop by going to Filter-Other-Offset, and moving our image horizontally while making sure that wrap-around is selected. This allows us to then fix our seam with the stamp tool, for example. Making sure the image size isn't too large we'll flatten and save as a jpeg file.
Then it's just drag and drop our image file onto the MakeCubic program icon and let it do the rest. Once our mov file is created we can navigate the space with our arrow keys, shift to zoom in, and control to zoom out.
At this point we should also take notice of any artifacts created at the top and bottom of our spheres as a result of the image being pinched together. These "God rays" can be taken care of by adjust the color at the top and bottom of our image in Photoshop. A single color will fade together and eliminate the ray effect. It might also be interesting to try to create an image that makes good use of these rays.
(Sorry sample video doesn't work on the blog)
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