ZERO extra work. Photographers using the platform provided by my
company
just need to upload an equirect. The system takes care of the rest:
conversion/storage/detection/display.
Ah ok, I didn't realize you were a service provider.
Extra storage is required indeed, but at today's cost this is really
marginal. Assuming your average QTVR is 1MB, adding all other
formats go
to about 5MB. At current HDD prices below 0.50 US$/GB storage is
peanuts.
What is ADR
Advanced Dynamic Range.
I now recall messing around a bit with such a ptviewer demo pano.
An example tells the story better than a
thousand words (requires Shoclwave):
<http://dativ.at/fotos/panoramas/adr/adr.html> (Bernhard Vogl is
one of
the best HDR/ADR authors out there).
A beautiful high resolution panorama indeed. However, I must say
that, to my eye, the illumination of the scene doesn't change in a
way that I would consider "natural". If I were standing in that spot
and just turned my head 90 degrees, the areas I'm turning _from_
wouldn't get darker. I honestly don't find that it adds much to the
panorama, and in fact I find it somewhat distracting (which is
probably why I didn't pursue it when I found that ptviewer demo).
If, on the other hand, you were moving _through_ the scene (as in
computer games), the illumination most certainly _would_ change, and
I could see some real benefit to ADR.
Of course, that's not to say _HDR_ doesn't contribute anything.
and CMS?
Content Management System. The principle of generating the tour
automatically rather than hand crafting it. So you tell the CMS once
which node is related to which other and where to place the hotspot
and
the CMS generates the output for the different plugins, as opposed to
manually authoring for each and every plugin.
Very cool.
I can easily add hotspot
shapes, positioning, URLs and all sort of overlays to Java/
ptviewer and
Shockwave/SPi-V).
I didn't know hotspots could be added to ptviewer panos. Have any
URLs handy which discuss how to do that?
It defaulted to QT for me (I'm on a Mac). I did override it and
checked out the Java version though, and I _really_ like the ability
to overlay the map and hotspots! I'm sure this can probably be done
with QT, but not with the tools I have available. I'll have to look
into what's entailed in doing it with Java. I don't like the more
sluggish panning of the Java version, however. It would also be cool
if the overlays could be toggled off and on.
Interestingly, I too have integrated Google Maps with my pano site
(which is not yet live). I don't use Google Earth for real estate
stuff, though, as the GE license seemed to prohibit it.
Thanks for the info,
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Steve Schacht
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