Patent Document ID: 4214821
Application ID: 05956031
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
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.