This is an example for a multinode VR tour using
spherical panoramas in cubic Quicktime, RealVR
and PTViewer Java format.
<http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/Marburg/Marburg.html>
The panoramic images are identical for all versions.
The Quicktime and PTViewer versions both use
indexed hotspot images. For Quicktime this
is described in
<http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/index.html#qtvr>
I have created one equirectangular hotspot image
for each panorama, and used MakeCubicPPC to create the
VR-file. Almost the same hotspot image is used
for the PTViewer Java version, only the color map had to
be changed (for specifications see
<http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/PTVJ/doc.html>)
This conversion can be automated using a small Mac-application
which I have written, download from
<http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/gcupdate.sit.hqx>.
This makes it easy to author 2 versions of your
VR-tours: One Quicktime version and one plug-in free
Java version, both using the same hotspot files.
Also included is a bugfix for the Panorama Tools
plug-in for GraphicConverter.
Helmut Dersch
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Spherical Panoramas, Macro Panoramas,
Free Panorama Software,
Mailing List "Immersive Imaging":
<http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch>
