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Re: WWPano: another world wide panorama, anyone?
Serge Gutwirth 2004-May-29 19:48:00
Great Don & Landis,
It is with great pleasure I will participate in this one too; I'm
planning to shoot the old
city of Bruges and try to find a surprising angle on the the Grand
Place in Brussels
also. Altough Tito Duperet is a native Belgian, I guess he won't mind
since he most
probabely will be in Koala-lumpur or at the arctic circle by then...
Thank you for this new great initiative
Serge
--- In #removed#, G. Donald Bain <#removed#> wrote:
> The first World Wide Panorama was an amazing success. Great
numbers of
> people around the world have been enjoying the site.
Congratulations
> and thanks to everyone who participated!
>
> We are considering a repeat event, similar to the first, for the
coming
> Solstice (summer in the northern hemisphere, winter in the
southern),
> which falls on June 20-21.
>
> The theme of the first WWPano was implicit - photographers around
the
> world taking VR photos on the same day. The theme of the June 2004
> World Wide Panorama will be "World Heritage".
>
> Many of you will be aware of Tito Dupret's project to photograph
> (including VR photographs) UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He has been
> traveling for the last several years, producing amazing panoramas
of
> Angkor in Cambodia, the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, many places
in
> China, and most recently in Sri Lanka. Tito's site, WHTour
> (http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/) is rapidly becoming an
> outstanding archive of images of our common cultural heritage.
>
> But Tito could use some help -- there are 754 officially designated
> sites, scattered all around the world. So he has invited us to join
him
> in this project. The combined talents of the World Wide Panorama
> participants can make a huge contribution, all in one weekend. The
full
> UNESCO list is at:
> http://whc.unesco.org/nwhc/pages/sites/main.htm
>
> What if you are eager to participate, but don't have an official
world
> heritage site close enough? No problem, you are free to select
anywhere
> that you deem to fit the theme of "World Heritage".
>
> We will use the Yahoo Grouo ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp/)
and
> the web site at http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp.html to
communicate
> about this project. Details will be posted soon, both to the list
and
> on the site.
>
> In brief: shoot on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, June 19-20-21,
produce
> a QuickTime VR panorama or object, and submit it to the WWPano
> organizers (once again, Don Bain and Landis Bennett), for
incorporation
> into the site.
>
> The project is sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility,
> University of California Berkeley, and will be hosted by The
Geo-Images
> Project. Although this remains a non-profit venture, we will be
> collaborating with the FullScreen QTVR site, and asking your
permission
> to host WWPano images also on that site.
>
> Looking forward to another great event!
> -----
> For more information:
> Join Yahoo Groups and go to http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/wwp/
Visit
> the web site at http://GeoImages.Berkeley,edu/wwp.html (to be
updated
> soon)
> -----
> Don Bain - #removed#
> Landis Bennett - #removed#