Week 5

This week was rather slow, however there were several interesting discoveries....

Anthony has started taking the pictures and I've been able to catch up with him several time to look at progress and problems and how we can actually go about solving these problems.

Firstly we've managed to loan out the tripod, a good digital camera and of course the camera locking tool that enables you to take photos are specific angles.
These was some problems with the digital camera it seem to be stuck in automatic mode. In this mode the functions of the camera is greatly limited, proberly as bad as like driving a Farreri with only 3 gears, that would suck big time.
Since I had a similar but later model of the camera, I decided to through some of thr basic functions of that camera(canon ixus 430). Basic stuff like control the shutter speed, the ISO, switching lense mode, allow it to capture more colour(vivid mode), control/use of flash. These factor would be highly essential if we are to get good photos, are it would affect the lighting in the ares and for QTVR, a photo which you can hardly see anything is hardly of any use.
The diddferent modes of the camera was also explored, however this was after Anthony could get it to switch modes, the Ixus 430 does have its own panoramic mode, however this mode give you VERY poor control of lighting and renders the image almost useless. I guessit is just simply better to stick to the other modes after all.

I took some time to go through the documents of where I wanted the photos to be taken and right now Anthony would be taking trial photos for me to come up with a dummy code, we also talked about the time of the day in which to get the best photos to get the best lighting and where there is the least people.
We've also be playing around with stitching software and trying to get the best one available, several which crops out the height and loosing out important details, some not even stitching the photos properly and leaving an obvious line, and even screwing up the lighting of the photos after all the effort we put in to get the best photos.

I managed to get a dummy/trial image of the building 1 foyer and am currently working on the coding for the VR tour. Just basic playing around with code that I already have from past project(uni and work), I've managed to get this rather cool effect of panning around an area just by having mouse overs of borders on of the tour window.
Now would be to actually refine the code to be able to work on all 4 directions and to write it in such a way that transitions and other stuff can be added to it. Basically it the stage of making the code "re-useable", in order to have less problems later in the development stage.