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Re: Best of 2009
Yahoo Account 2009-Dec-09 09:25:00
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>From: Erik Krause <#removed#>
>To: #removed#
>Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 1:12:46 AM
>Subject: Re: Best of 2009
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>>If I'd set up a panorama display system, I'd store hotspots in a
>>database anyway and generate them for the particular viewer
>>dynamically. Now that QTVR is vanishing it's fairly easy...
Exactly. Back in the QTVR days, I tinkered on a server-based system that would build the index-color hotspot images for the QTVR hotspot maps based on the vector data in a database (e.g. "URL 1 - 0.5 X /0.3 Y thru 0.6 X / 0.4 Y of image axis"). Never got around to actually implement a complete "build whole QTVR" program from it, it was more of a "can I do that?" thing :)
QTVR still is much faster on "legacy" MacOS machines. A fullscreen Flash display invariably brings my iMac G5 to its knees, while a QTVR of the same size works OK. Not great, but OK.
-Markus
(down with a cold and somewhat clogged in the the head ... :S )