convert tiles back to equirectangular

[d61helix]

Hi guys,

I've made a script that allows to reverse the tiling process back to panos while trying to recover some of my lost panos. As it is specifically made for pano2vr, would it be legal to share it with people who needs it since there is no official function to reverse the tiles, probably mean there might be some legality issues concerned? I would like to get a feel of how the demand is like for such scripts before putting it up as a web application. Thank you!

[Tony]

Hi,

As far as I'm aware there isn't any issues regarding rebuilding panoramas from the tiles however there would be copyright issues if the rebuilt panoramas were used by someone who didn't own the copyright for the original equirectangular image.

I'd be interested in giving your script a go as a number of years ago I wrote a rather lengthy series of posts called "An Unexpected Benefit of Multi-Resolution in Pano2VR projects - Part 1, 2 & 3". In part 3 I provide details on how to use Fiji imagej application to rebuild the cube faces. You can find the posts here https://tonyredhead.com/pano2vr/unexpec ... efit-part1

Maybe Hopki has some thoughts on the copyright issues.

Cheers,

Tony

[Hopki]

My viewpoint on this is that Multi-resolution does make it harder for people to "steal" panoramas from websites.
If someone uses your image without permission it is stealing.
So keeping it as hard as possible for people to do this can only be a good thing.
Helping people to recover their own panoramas from outputs is also a good thing if done low-key, using PM for example, but not so sure it helps anyone having this put out in the public domain.
I must repeat, this is my personal viewpoint and not that of Garden Gnome
Regards,