wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: QTVR = VR photography?
Eduardo 2006-Feb-19 04:31:00
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/index.html says:
"The World Wide Panorama began in March 2004 and has become an ongoing
series of events. Photography takes place on the solstices (longest and
shortest days of the year) and equinoxes (day and night of equal
length). Photographers all over the world are welcome to participate.
A VR panorama (VR for virtual reality) is a specially created computer
image that goes all the way around the viewer. It is a revolutionary way
to document a particular place and time ? the next best thing to being
there."
Thats the very statement of what is the WWP and Quicktime is merely *A*
viewer, or the media within the media, and not *THE ESSENCE* of WWP.
This statement defines a very specific slice of time (solstices and
equinoxes) when the source of the panoramas has to be taken/shot (which
led to a withdraw on Energy event, sept/05).
Again, it's about VR panoramas and not about QTVR. It's not even about
Quicktime!
In my understanding of that statement, there is no other way to see WWP
but as a photographic event, the same way we can look at World Press
Photo or others like that.
It's restrictive? Maybe but not every frame is negative, or positive
depending on the point of view, and the guys who conceived, organized,
invested the time and will to create WWP are not restricting but
instead, defining something in the exactly same way you define what you
are going to use to create your art, what will be the container and
media of your creativity... which is quite diferent.
Eduardo Hutter