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Re: my first panoramas
Jaume Llorens [eldimoni.com] 2005-Jul-07 15:09:00
En/na Richard Crowest ha escrit:
> --- In #removed#, "Jaume Llorens [eldimoni.com]"
> <#removed#> wrote:
> > Thanks for your comments, Willy.
> > I'm not sure to understand what you mean.. You can click with mouse
> on
> > picture and drag in any direction, and can do the same in the plan
> of
> > the lake.. isn't it a cilindrical VR..?
> >
> > En/na Willy Kaemena ha escrit:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I like your photos but personally hate the way of "moving
> photo"
> > > presentation, this is not VR for me. Why are you not making a
> nice
> > > cylindrical VR out of it??
>
> Hi Jaume -
>
> Firstly, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of your
> panoramas - they don't look at all like the work of a beginner.
>
> However, the Java viewer you're using isn't working for me - I can't
> get anything to show up in any of my browsers under Mac OS X. (I saw
> the photos by looking into the directory structure on your web server
> and downloading the JPEGs.)
>
> I think what Willy is talking about is something called 'warping' or
> 'correction'. Some simple "VR viewers" just scroll a flat image from
> side to side, joining the ends together into an endless sequence. The
> effect is a bit like sliding a printed image under a hole in a picture
> frame. What you don't get is any sense of actually turning in a
> circle. As I can't see your viewer, I'm not certain that this is what
> it's doing, but that's my guess.
>
> What things like Quicktime VR and the PanoTools PT viewer do is to
> warp or curve the flat image into a cylinder or a sphere. This way you
> get a real sense of turning in a circle, and an effect that's much
> more like 'being there'. For the World Wide Panorama, you'd need to
> produce QuickTime VR files, but for now you can stick with Java and
> use the PTViewer applet (http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/
> <http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/%7Edersch/> ),
> which will give you a better effect, and should work for people with
> Macs as well. The .jar file in this version can even be double-clicked
> as a stand-alone application to view local JPEG panoramas (depending
> on your Java installation).
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Richard
It is exactly what happens, Richard. I have used the Panorama Factory
soft to stitch and the java viewer included on it.. The result is like a
scroll to right or left. No sense of circle. I understand now.
I'll try to to use the PTViewer applet to have this surrounding effect
and to make the panoramas visible to all mac users.. Settings does not
seem very simple to learn... isn't it.?... well I'll try to do it.
A good new that you have found nothing wrong in pictures. :-)
Thanks for your advice!
Jaume Llorens
www.jllorens.net