Total environment photographic mount and photograph

• US 4,214,821 A
• Filed: 10/30/1978
• Issued: 07/29/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard A. Termes
• Original Assignee: Richard A. Termes
• Inventors: Termes, Richard A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wintercorn, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wade, Shelley
• Application Number:
  US05/956,031
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 354/293, 354/354, 354/295, 354/296, 352/69-71, D16/11, D16/17, D16/18, D16/83
• US Class Current: 352/70
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/00 Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/00 Panoramic or wide-screen photography; Photographing extended surfaces, e.g. for surveying; Photographing internal surfaces, e.g. of pipe

Abstract

A device for taking a series of photographs, each in reference to one of the faces of a regular polyhedron. The photographs are then printed and the prints are trimmed to the appropriate configuration in relation to the geometry of the faces of the polyhedron used. Trimming of the prints requires that the edges of adjacent prints result in images which are continuous. The prints are then mounted to form a continuous photograph in the form of a regular polyhedron similar to the polyhedron used as a camera mount to take the series of photographs.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a total environment photograph comprising:

exposing a plurality of photographs in reference to each of the plurality of faces upon a camera mount in the form of a polyhedron;

printing said photographs to a size suitable for the finished assembly;

determining and marking upon the face of said prints the geometric center of each print;

placing two of the said prints which were exposed from adjacent faces of said camera mount so that the images are up and overlapping;

constructing a line between the geometric centers of said overlapped prints;

constructing a perpendicular bisector to said line between said geometric center points;

rotating the line segment between the geometric center point, of the upper print, and the perpendicular bisector one hundred and twenty degrees both clockwise and counter clockwise about the geometric center point on the upper print;

constructing lines perpendicular to said rotated line segments creating a equilateral triangle on the upper print;

constructing a template, from a thin material, of the same size and configuration as said equilateral triangle constructed upon the upper print, said template provided with a central reference point coincident with the geometric center point of said equilateral triangle, said template provided with tabs extending outwardly from the midportion of each of the three sides of said equilateral triangle, said tabs being of sufficient length to contain the geometric center points of adjacent overlapped prints, the location of said geometric center points of adjacent overlapped prints lying upon reference lines extending from said central reference point and perpendicular to each of the sides of said equilateral triangle and at a distance from said central reference point equal to twice the distance from said central reference point to the point where said reference lines intersect the sides of said equilateral triangle;

placing two of the said prints which were exposed from adjacent faces of said camera mount so that the images are up and overlapping;

placing said template upon the upper print so that said central reference point coincides with the geometric center point of said upper print;

rotating said template about said central reference point until the geometric center point contained in one of the outwardly extended tabs coincides with the geometric center point of the lower overlapped prints;

transferring the trim lines to the said upper overlapped print from the edges of the equilateral triangle portion of said templates;

determining the trim lines of the remaining plurality of prints by using the said template as previously described;

trimming the prints by using the said trim lines;

bonding together the edges of adjacently exposed prints resulting in a polyhedron body whereby the photographic image across the transition of adjacent edges of said trimmed prints is continuous.

2. A process as in claim 1 wherein said thin material consists of transparent plastic type material.

3. A method of manufacturing a total environment photograph as in claim 1 wherein said plurality of photographs are exposed in reference to each of the plurality of faces upon

a camera mount in the form of a hexahedron;

said template comprising of a four sided square provided with a central reference point coincident with the geometric center point of said square;

said template provided with tabs extending outwardly from the midportion of each of the four sides of said square;

said tabs being of sufficient length to contain the geometric center points of said adjacent overlapping prints;

the location of said geometric center points of adjacent overlapped prints lying upon reference lines extending from said central reference point and perpendicular to each of the sides of said square and at a distance from said central reference point equal to twice the distance from said central reference point to the point where said reference lines intersect the sides of said square.

4. A method of manufacturing a total environment photograph as in claim 1 wherein said plurality of photographs are exposed in reference to each of the plurality of faces upon a camera mount in the form of a dodecahedron;

said template comprising of a five sided, regular pentagon provided with a central reference point coincident with the geometric center point of said pentagon;

said template provided with tabs extending outwardly from the midportion of each of the five sides of said pentagon;

said tabs being of sufficient length to contain the geometric center points of said adjacent overlapped prints;

the location of said geometric center points of adjacent overlapped prints lying upon reference lines extending from said central reference point and perpendicular to each of the sides of said pentagon and at a distance from said central reference point equal to twice the distance from said central reference point to the point where said reference lines intersect the sides of said pentagon.