It's not a good idea to convert panoramas from mirror ball. It's because of high distortion and blur near the border of mirror ball pictures.

Theoretically, you could use PTGui:

1. Open mirror ball image
2. Set Lens Type = circular fisheye and HFOV = 360
3. Set properly round crop in Crop tab (it should be done absolutely perfectly)
4. Click ctrl + E (editor) and align panorama

Here's what you can get (see attachment)

Two suggestions that may help

- Use the Make Object droplet or the HTML 5 friendly solution from Andrey here http:
//www.krpano.com/forum/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=8034&pageNo=2

Firstly, it's not possible for the single circular image to be rotated as it's essentially just a flat image with one point of view.
You require multiple circular images, rotated slightly each time (say 10 degrees) to show a slightly different viewpoint which ends up covering 360 degrees of the sphere.

36 images would give you smooth rotation when interacting. 24 may even suffice. This will only give you horizontal rotation.
If you wanted vertical rotation you'd require more images.
See here Object VR with left/right AND up/down rotation

- For a sphere wrapped around a 3D object, you could implement the Three JS plugin.
Use three.js (3d objects) inside krpano (with VR support)


In this case the mirror ball/sphere projection is not necessary and the equirectangular is mapped to a 3D sphere object instead.
Example of pano mapped to a 3D object is here http://www.pano-ad.com.au/panos/animetes…thex/index.html

To enable mouse/touch interaction would require more coding knowledge in Three JS, but certainly possible.

Hope that helps

Hi John,
I think most replies misunderstood you.

This just needs 3 view changes.

fovmin 180
stereographic false
fisheye 1

jl-krp,
It's krpano viewing settings for normal scenes.. turns the scene into an interactive mirrorball. Is that what you wanted?

Bingo! Thanks Sacha – for me at least, that's it. :)

Although it would be perfect if the distortion simulated a ball coming OUT rather than being like looking into a concave shape.

You can play with the options plugin in flash to change various settings quickly. If you use details=1 you get a cube. I've not seen that in krpano before.
Yeah it would look better out than in.. I didn't find a magic setting for it.

examples/plugin-examples/editor-options-plugins.. replace the flat image with one from the tours like..