wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: WWP server: Something new
Alex 2008-Mar-19 14:35:00
Outstanding! Great feature.
Thanks Marcus.
Alex
Markus Altendorff wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> now that we've begun "Beginnings" , i'd like to talk a bit about a new
> feature on the server: how you can define the panorama thumbnail image
> yourself.
>
> Sorry, no, it's still not 100% interactive/ instantaneous, but this
> new option should help us to avoid thumbnails with obviously bad image
> cropping (of head/feet/buildings etc).
>
> Here's how to:
>
> 1) upload your panorama as usual
> 2) beneath the three upload buttons "normal", "fullscreen" and
> "soundtrack" , you'll notice a new text line, saying "Thumbnail view
> is ...", with the "[EDIT]" box.
> 3) This leads to a text link (sorry! lazy recycled coding...), and
> another click takes you to a pop-up window where your panorama will
> load into a 200x100 view, the same size as the thumbnail. This should
> give a pretty accurate display of the final result, except for a
> certain "pixelated" look that Quicktime always gets when scaled down
> to such small sizes.
> 4) Rotate/zoom until you're happy with the view.
> 5) press the "Set thumbnail view" button.
>
> This needs Javascript, interacting with Quicktime and reading the
> pan/tilt/zoom angle every 0.3 seconds. I've successfully tried it with
> Mac/PC and my "known" browsers (IE 5-7, Safari 3 + 3.1, Firefox 1.5
> and 2), on XP, Win2000 and MacOS X 10.4/10.5.
>
> If you don't want to try this feature, just leave it at the default
> (0/0/0) setting, which means that (as before) the standard view you
> used to build the panorama will become the thumbnail (including any
> vertical cropping that may occur).
>
> For a short step-by-step video, take a look at:
> http://128.32. 102.88:8090/ tutorials/ how-to-pick- thumbnail. mov
> <http://128.32.102.88:8090/tutorials/how-to-pick-thumbnail.mov>
>
> The thumbnails are built later by downloading a list of those angles,
> and parsing it through a homemade RunRev program that, in essence,
> loads each pano, spins it to the recorded values and takes a snapshot
> into a JPEG file.
>
> -Markus
>
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