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For more info about the Summer School visit it’s website at http://www.geo.info.hu/urban3d/

This picture was made at the city center in Szekesfehervar,
during a visit to the historical center. If you were there,
and have a question about my presentation or anything about photography
or panoramics, just write me an email and I’ll gladly answer you.
You can find my email address at the bottom of this page, in the footer.
Later I will upload the other panoramas too, and there will be a new
menu where you can download my presentation, and other stuffs.
Hopefully you will get the sources on DVD, I gave it to Mr. Bela Markus.

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This picture is a not-so-official panorama, it wasn’t amongst the panoramas
which was in the handout. By the way, I hope you’ve got all the stuff I gave
to Mr. Bela Markus on the day I left. It is very bad that no one left here a
feedback or some words about my lecture. I thought that it was interesting,
by every indication during the lecture it was at least interesting for some of you.

Me and my girlfriend arrived just a day before you, and I had the difficult
task to compile the whole stuff for the lab part of the day. (I’ve prepared the
presentation about a week before, so that was ready a long ago.)
First we went trough the center to select the appropriate locations for the
panoramas, then took the source pictures and went back to stitch it together.
I needed to make all the stitching, at least I had a reference Hugin project file
if something goes wrong. These you could even download from here!

After that I’ve uploaded all the source images to the lab computers. In the lab
there was only Wi-Fi connection, and it turned out that it is unsuitable for
copying multiple Gbytes of data over it. So I burned some DVDs, and spread
the stuff with the help of these disks. It was very hot in that lab, the air condition
broke down, and the whole process took the half of saturday. Fortunately I’ve
finished with it at 8 pm, and after that I could have some beer at the icebreaking party.

By the way, the third glass on the desk is a fake, we had only 1 beer per head.
I just could retouch it from the final panorama, as I don’t have a source picture of the
background without the glass.

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I’ve jittered a little bit, because I usually don’t speak english.
Fortunately this was gone at the first 5 minutes, and I realized
that those 2 years reading english technician papers and scientific
materials helps me a lot.

For the lecture I’ve prepared everyhting, but one thing. The fact,
that you can see me at the podium in this panorama, is due to the
photographs taken by my girlfriend and assistant Eszter Kallai. I’ve
forgotten namely about the picture from myself.

A kind guy called Suchin has asked me at the end of the lecture:

“What if I forget to take a picture, or something went wrong with stitching?”

Suddenly I couldn’t respond with a good enough answer, I’ve just thrown back:

“Photoshop can make magic!”

After that a small laugh went trough the room, but I meant it as I said.
You can see it, I inserted a picture with a completely different viewpoint,
and it is almost undetectable. If you see long enough this picture,
you will have a feeling that there’s something wrong with that backpack
at the table, and as if I am a little larger as I used to. By the way, later
I gave a second answer for that question too. If the scenery has a lot of
moving stuff, I used to do 2- or 3 sets of pictures to assure the perfect stitch.

Just stay tuned, the other pictures will coming!

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It resides in Matra, this is the highest Mountain of Hungary. We took our
tents and did a holiday camp in the nature. Finally I’ve finished my studies
at the St. Istvan University so it was also a good occasion to celebrate my
diploma in Communication Techniques Engineering. The moral was also very
elevated, at least after some Tequilas.

Anyway, this lookout tower served as an oil drill some hundred kilometres
away that place, near Szeged. (A hungarian city.) After the site was
exhausted in the late sixties the tower was brought here with large effort
to enjoy the beautiful panorama from the top of it.

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It’s been a long time since I published my last panorama here,
but I was very busy. The next WWP event is coming, and I didn’t
even published my submission from december. Unfortunately I missed
the autumn event, the theme was colours. I had the idea of a large
colorful theme park, but had flu and didn’t want to go out in the cold.

Anyway, this one is from march 2008, so it is one year old. I remember
those days, the wind blowed very heavy, all the internal shots were done
long ago, I missed only some external panoramas around the university to
make the virtual tour ready.
Alas it was not a good choice to shoot the outdoor scenes in march,
you cannot see the beautiful flora around the university surroundings.

This panorama was taken at the main dormitory of the Szent Istvan Egyetem,
the second, newly built one will be the subject of my next upload.

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The signs on the wall help you navigate inside
the building of the University. I remember when I was a freshman how
much these signs helped me finding the right classroom.

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When you look downwards you can see the parking lot dedicated
directly to the higher staff of the unversity, such as dean, etc…

Behind the cars there is a large green park with a statue of prince Kalman on a horse.
Coloman I. the Book-lover (Hungarian: I. (Könyves) Kálmán), also spelled Koloman (c. 1070 – 3 February 1116),
was the king of Hungary (1095-1116) and of Croatia (1102-1116).

Anyway, this picture was made with the help of enfuse. There were
3 separate exposures and all those were fused together.
However, the ceiling and the bottom parts were not too perfect due to
that enfuse handles the zenith and nadir (upper and lower) parts not yet properly,
it is only in an alpha state.

“If contrasty structures are near zenith or nadir in an equirectangular image, there might be an artifact (vortex) in the resulting pano. Workaround: use on zenith and nadir images separately and stitch them in the resulting pano afterwards.”
http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse

So I was given with a large neon-greenish artifact, and I needed to PS it away.
But the retouch was not perfect, you can see me with the tripod becoming sweaty
in the glass. It was too hot in the window because of the reflections.

By the way, the sitting student is my colleague and good friend, Daniel Kadar.
He helped me carrying all the photo accessories during the photoshoot of the University.

Thank you again, Daniel!

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The class called “presentation systems”. We learned a lot about
how we can give a lecture, and what tools and appliances are
available for that task. We also learned how one can use these tools
to bring out the best efficiency out of them.

At the beginning of the lecture I shot the source pictures for this
VR panorama, and one week later I gave a lecture about how this panorama
was made.

From here you can download the complete Powerpoint slideshow:

*** Viktor Balogh – Making of VR panoramas [HUN] ***

This stuff is hungarian, but contains some useful information and
a lot of pictures. In the summer I will give a workshop, for this
time it will be in english. There will be a summer school in Székesfehérvár,
for more info see http://www.geo.info.hu/urban3d. I will publish
the slides as soon as they’ll get ready, and from there I’ll return with
some more interesting VRs too. These massive SZIE panoramas about
my University become a bit boring.

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And here is a fisheye projection warped from a bunch of rectilinear pictures
I’ve taken with my 18-55mm kit lens: