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April Fool !
G. Donald Bain 2005-Apr-01 02:53:00
Disregard my previous message. :-)
The new edition is now up and running! Check it out at:
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp305/index.html
Everyone is to be congratulated on a fine job. Almost 250 participants,
from 44 countries, a new record. Many new participants and some
memorable images.
Here is my short press release. I will be working on some longer
versions, when I have had a chance to look at all the panoramas.
Don
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Marketplace - A World Wide Panorama
Last weekend over 250 photographers, mostly strangers to each other,
collaborated on an international photography project. Working in 44
countries around the world they each photographed and prepared a VR
panorama on the theme of "marketplace". The results show amazing
imagination and variety.
If you have never experienced a VR panorama this is an excellent way to
find out what it is all about. These computer images spin around 360?,
sometimes also straight up and down, allowing you to look in any
direction. It is as if you are "virtually" there.
The web site produced by this effort is available at
worldwidepanorama.com. You may need to download and install QuickTime
software (free, from Apple Computer) if you do not already have it.
The World Wide Panorama series of events, sponsored by the Geography
Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley, is now
starting a second year of quarterly events. This time it was held the
weekend of the Equinox, March 20, first day of Spring in the northern
hemisphere. Participating photographers were free to choose any
interpretation of the theme "marketplace" that appealed to them, from
actual local farmer's markets to abstract concepts of marketplaces of
ideas.