I recently let ICE assemble 48 images of the inside of highly detailed round building with very high walls and a clear span domed roof. All photos where taken from a tripod centered in the building and using a pano set up to hold the camera....
ICE did a remarkable job with the automatic analysis, stitching, and assemble (with the exception of a couple small areas missing pixels for some reason). I am very impressed with the proformance of the software. I utilized the perspective mode and can do a fly through that is amazing.
Question: Is it possible to save a copy of the screen image being viewed using the perspective mode (or screen snap shot) to a jpg file so it can be printed later? This would allow me to print a picture from a position centered on the floor looking straight up showing all walls and dome in one 3D image (in the round so to speak) instead of a flat rectangular or square picture mode. The program defaults back to rotation mode yielding a very nice rectangular picture but lacks any indication to the viewer that it is of a round object with a domed top from the insid. This is the only way to properly display this architectural work of art.
I am trying to do something that can't be done in ICE or is it in the works? Any help here would be great.
Thanks,
Carl
I'm happy to hear that ICE worked out well for you
Does the projection revert back to something other than perspective when you hit apply? If so you are hitting a "feature" of ICE that we should change eventually. What is happening is that the full image has too wide a field-of-view to be displayed as perspective, we detect this and revert to some curved projection.
With this version of ICE you have 3 options that I can think of to achieve what you want. None of these are great but hopefully one works for you.
1) do a screen grab. Make ICE as large as possible on your screen to make sure you get decent resolution. Then press <alt> <PrtScn>. Then go to your favorite image editing application and select Paste in the editor. You can then save the image from the image editing app.
2) presumably there are a bunch of your input images not represented in perspective view that you desire. If you are comfortable with a text editing program (e.g. notepad) you can open the ICE project file (the .spj that results from selecting file:save) for your set. Find any images not present in the view and delete their <image .../> </image> section. Then save this as a new .spj file and open it in ICE. This new project should have a smaller total field-of-view and you should be able to save a perspective image out of ICE.
3) if you want an interactive output instead of a flat image you can select the HD View output type and that will allow you to interactively view the result in perspective mode.
Hope this helps.
Option 1 does not work very well as you are left with the white grid overlay over the perspective view. You can't get rid of it by applying the changes as that takes you back to one of the curved projections.