Make a Panorama

360° Panorama is very useful to show tiny spaces. It's also very funny to play with and feel the space surrounding the camera.

Blender
First of all, use the Blender BGC Script to create a Cubic panorama. This will render six images representing the faces of a cube where the camera is in the center.



Stitching images to panorama
Once you have the 6 images, use GoCubic on Windows or MakeCubic on Mac to create a Cubic QTVR panorama (.mov). On Linux you can use jpeg2qtvr from the Panotools::Script perl module to pack six JPEG cube faces into a .mov QTVR file.

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Quicktime
QTVR panorama can be easily played by Quicktime software but only on Mac and Windows platforms.

For Linux freepv can be used to display QuickTime and other panorama formats.

PTViewer
Fortunately, there is a free Java panorama viewer. It's a Java applet called PTViewer. So you can show your panorama to Linux users too (and by the web if you need).

You must use a special version of PTViewer to play QTVR panorama. Here you can donwload a template with all files you need.

Web page example showing a QTVR with PTViewer