Florin Miu 2001 

    3. Creating the Panorama Images

As I said you first need a 360⁰ photo, 2048x256 pixels. 

Take much more photos than you think you need. Taking photos all around by hand will produce images not very well aligned. Here is what I've obtained when I first merged the images from a landscape:

However with patient and making use of cloning, painting etc. I succeeded in creating a reasonable 360⁰ image.

You must pay attention to left/right edges to fit well together.

After you have the 360⁰ image open the ImageSplitter.exe app and load your image.

Note. ImageSplitter.exe is a VisualBasic app. You need the vb 6.0 sp3 runtime on your computer to run it. If you don't have the vb 6.0 sp3 runtime you may install the Designer Extension from Resources section of the forum which contains the runtime too. 

Image Splitter allows you to split images in 4, 8, 16 or 32 pieces. For the panorama project you MUST split the panorama in 16 pieces.

After loading the image press the Split button. The image will be broken in 16 pieces in the same location with the panorama image.

The resulting files are named p_1.bmp, p_2.bmp, ..., p_16.bmp. Don't rename them because the Java code from the panorama scene expects these file names.

Now that you have the panorama broken in 16 pieces its time to create the 16 cult worlds.

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