Panorama activity

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Samuel Klein wrote:
> do we have a way of telling or
> estimating the XO's swivel angle from hardware?

The stitcher determines the angle from the images themselves.
I'm not aware of any helpful hardware.

Eben Eliason wrote:
> Ben, what's the viewing
> angle of the camera?  Is 6 shots sufficient?

The horizontal viewing angle is about 45 degrees.  That means that 16 shots are
required if successive frames overlap by 50%.  I took 16 frames using the
Capture activity in a minute or two.  Good interface design will be required to
make this process painless.  Obviously, panoramas less than 360 degrees require
fewer shots.

- --Ben
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