wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: Panos from Katrina
Robert C. Fisher 2005-Sep-03 18:09:00
On Sep 3, 2005, at 10:49 AM, John Fellers wrote:
>> I liked the panos it's a shame that the
>> Washington Post doesn't offer QTVR playback in addition to Flash.
>> Awesome images of the destruction, without being there it's hard o
>> imagine but this helps.
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> Graphic imagery from a tragic disaster; they actually work very well as
> presented but--I agree - a QTVR option may have added greater impact.
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> It seems odd that with the introduction of Action Script 2.0 in Flash
> MX
> programmers have yet to come up with a decent cylindrical viewer; one
> that
> does not rely on some form of slicing technology (such as FlashVR.) AS
> 2.0
> is an object orientated language much like Java and C++, you would
> think
> that fully functional Flash VR viewers would be possible. No doubt a
> lot of
> the math and 3d functionality would have to be written into custom
> classes;
> probably not an easy thing to do.
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> Of course the holy grail of VR Flash viewers would be a fully
> functional
> cylindrical or QTVR type of viewer . . .
Again why not use QTVR since this already works and the installed base
is growing, just about every Wintel box sold these days has QT already
installed.
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> J. Fellers
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Cheers
Robert C. Fisher
QTVR Photography/Cinematography
www.rcfisher.com