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Monday, August 16th 2010, 10:54am

Orange Big Pano

Hi everybody,

Friday 13.08 :)) we launched a big pano for Orange Romania. This panorama has been taken during the MIKA concert, in Constanta.
The idea was to have all the people present at the concert in a single picture and give the user the possibility to zoom in, find himself and then, add a tag on his face.

The big thing is that we integrated the pano with the facebook API. In order to tagg your face, first you have to remotely connect to facebook. Then, the system gets all your information from fb - name, user id, url etc. When you add the tag, an event appears on your facebook wall an lets your friend know you have tagged yourself (viral stuff). You can also share or like the link (the usual facebook stuff).

The link is here www.mikabigpicture.ro and will be online for around 2 weeks.

This project has been developed by youngminds agency, Bucharest: Sorin Paraschiv, Bogdan Zarchievici, Bogdan Taut. Photo by Mihai Bodea and post-processing by Vlad Buzinschi.

A feedback is more than welcomed ;-)

Best regards,
Bogdan

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Monday, August 16th 2010, 11:53am

Wow, great Idea!
Could you please explain a little bit about the technique used, to take the picture(s) and the stitching?

Steffen

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Monday, August 16th 2010, 12:31pm

Dear Steffen,

We used:
Canon 550D camera
70-200 2,8 Canon lens
Nodal Ninja 3 MK 2 pano head + RD16 rotator

set on: 400 ISO, 70 mm, f8

Result: 3x19 = 57 photos

We tried to stitch everything with PTGui software but the result were very bad, due to the movement of the crown. Therefore, we stitched the pictures manually in Photoshop *sad*
It took 4 days of hard work ( *thumbsup* Vlad).

Final result - tiff - 3,5 GB - 65.000x18.633 px

Then cut with the multires batch from krpano, published with krpano and a some work for the integration with Facebook.
This is it.

And, of course, krpano is great *thumbup*

Best regards,
Bogdan

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Monday, August 16th 2010, 7:49pm

Thank you Bogdan for the information!

Quoted from "bodipod"

We tried to stitch everything with PTGui software but the result were very bad, due to the movement of the crown. Therefore, we stitched the pictures manually in Photoshop *sad*
It took 4 days of hard work ( *thumbsup* Vlad).
I've been very astonished about the good stitching, my own results of scenes with movement in it are very bad too - yes, vlad has done a very good job! *g*

Steffen

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Tuesday, August 17th 2010, 8:47am

For scenes with movement you should decrease the focal length and increase the percentage overlap. I have a prototype that will hold six smaller cameras and lenses, but it is not practical to use that many cameras. A two or four camera system would be practical and allow you to increase the focal length or reduce the problem areas in the image.

Ptgui and Autopano Giga allow you to output layers along with the main panorama. If you "shift click" on the mask of a layer, it will temporarily disable the mask allowing you to see what you want to paint in or out.

This Orange Romania application which is external to facebook communicates differently than the Glastonbury image that was created for the main sponsor Orange. They used openzoom and you can see API usage such as GET picture from graph.facebook.com, and GET id.jpg from profile.ak.fbcdn.net.
http://glastonbury.orange.co.uk/glastotag/

This application seems to have stored the identity and location in a database. If you click on the rounded rectangle of the identified individual it opens a new tab and fetches GETs the profile page for the particular individual.

Open the firebug plugin in a Firefox browser and enable the network tab

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