This is an interesting paper on generating realistic environment maps from single images: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.226.2171&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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This scenario reminds me that there is a pretty economy way to capture a panorama scene. Using a spherical light probe (or spherical mirror) and capture the detail image of the probe using a digital camera. Clipping all other contents and do the spherical transformation to the format we want.
This is an interesting paper on generating realistic environment maps from single images: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.226.2171&rep=rep1&type=pdf
This scenario reminds me that there is a pretty economy way to capture a panorama scene. Using a spherical light probe (or spherical mirror) and capture the detail image of the probe using a digital camera. Clipping all other contents and do the spherical transformation to the format we want.