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Re: WWP server: Something new
Robert Agnel 2008-Apr-02 21:38:00
--- In #removed#, Markus Altendorff <panoramas_de@...> 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
>
> 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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Hi Markus
any chance we can use this cool new feature on a previous submission?
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp905/html/RobertAgnel....
Terry's head is cut off in the preview.
thanks
Robert