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A new generation of digital visual devices is being available for representation research, with particular interest for the themes of architecture and urban environments. In fact spherical cameras and smartglasses offer advanced experimental opportunity also for some geometrical and iconographic considerations about the new features that digital image technologies made now possible. These digital optical devices are designed for the capture of the entire visual field from a single point of view. The picture of the whole sorrounding environment is so implemented into an equirectangular projection image, as a 1 × 2 format panoramic matrix file, available for further geometric algoritmic computation. This image is get ready to be interactively explored by eyepieces or smartglasses (in VR or AR) designed for giving back to the user the view of the specific optical cone relevant to the field of view to which it is oriented. Some specific capture devices integrate 3D scanning with the simultaneous optical capture of the surrounding space for 3D image/model. The features of such innovative devices and artifacts suggests an interesting case study of a technology, based on complex curvilinear geometry and algorithm, that offer an iconographical computational paradigm for the visual representation, up to social communication.
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https://leica-geosystems.com/products/laser-scanners/scanners/blk360 [Last accessed 18/07/2020].
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ICGG2018 Conference Picture by the Author; http://www.icgg2018.polimi.it/?page_id=855 [Last accessed 18/07/2020].
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Brunetti, F.A. (2021). Spherical Images: Capture and Visualization Devices. Icons of a Computational Paradigm. In: Cheng, LY. (eds) ICGG 2020 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics. ICGG 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1296. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63403-2_92
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