Add 360x180 spherical pano photos by Sybren Stüvel

[sybrenstuvel]

These photos were taken by Sybren Stüvel, November 2023, in Erawan, Thailand.

The photos are offered for use in the OpenStitching project to aid in the development of support for spherical panoramas. The photos can be copied and modified for this purpose, as long as this notice is kept with the files.

The photos were taken with a Fuji X-S10 camera, with its 18-55mm kitlens at 18mm. A Nodal Ninja 3 on a tripod was used to position the camera. 38 camera orientations were used: 3 rows of 12 photos, zenith, and nadir. Each position was used to make 5 photos using exposure bracketing. These exposures were merged using
Brakketor and enblend into the 38 JPEG files you find here.

As requested by @lukasalexanderweber at OpenStitching/stitching#79 :)

[sybrenstuvel]

@lukasalexanderweber as one Open Source developer to another, a small tip. When someone goes through the trouble to help out your project (in this case, to give away their photos to aid the project development), at least thank them for their contribution.

[lukasalexanderweber]

@sybrenstuvel thank you for your valuable feedback. You are right. I'm still a fairly inexperienced open source developer and I'm just entering a phase where maintaining the support is getting on my nerves. I implemented stitching during a research project and then published it as a github and pipy project in my spare time. I'm currently working on something completely different. That's also the reason why i want to restructure the discussion area, so that i can refer to a faq more quickly or only provide support for image data sets if they are also provided, so that it is reproducible and can therefore help other users in the long term. In the end i thought to myself "he wants help so he should make the effort to upload the images as PR". But i understand that this is a completely wrong approach to running an open source community. I am grateful that you have shared your images and set a good example for others who might also want help with their images.

best regards
lukas

[sybrenstuvel]

Hi Lukas,

Sorry for the late response.

In the end i thought to myself "he wants help so he should make the effort to upload the images as PR". But i understand that this is a completely wrong approach to running an open source community.

I totally get where you're coming from, and you're not wrong either. Of course I want help, and I'm responsible for putting some effort into make it as easy as possible for others to provide me with that help. And your project also benefits from having a well-organised section of example images.

I am grateful that you have shared your images and set a good example for others who might also want help with their images.

👍 That's the spirit :)