Here I’ll cover how sensors can collect readings from an environment and represent those readings in a practical way. The most common field scanning devices are flat bed scanners and cameras. These devices either have a line of sensors or an array of them to take readings quickly. Flat bed scanners typically have a line of sensors that detect light and color. As the sensors move along the surface of an object, typically paper, they buffer the readings into memory. …
How can measurements be made when you can’t directly measure them? Measuring the height of a building could be done by someone hanging a string from the rooftop and then measuring the string. What if you can’t get access to the rooftop? What if you needed to measure the span of a lake or height of a mountain? Good luck using that string. Here is how FOV can be used as a measurement tool for objects in pictures, videos, etc. …
I had first seen spherical 360 video, which I’ll refer as SV, made by Jim Watters, http://photocreations.ca/3D/mobius_camera_rig.html. It was an accidental on line find. My intent was to research a way to use 2 cameras to create 3D video. He had used a device that he created called a multi camera panoramic video rig. It was a cluster of inexpensive Mobius HD 1080p key chain cameras that were mounted and pointed at various angles. The rig used a total of…