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Looks great! And you don't need those annoying Microsoft plugins!!
Jim
Ron Parker wrote in message <362e07bd.0@news.povray.org>...
>On 21 Oct 1998 09:29:49 -0500, Ron Parker <par### [at] my-dejanews com> wrote:
>
>>Something to think about: what happens if you render an image at say
14800x300,
>>using a camera with an angle of 370 degrees, then stick it in a 400x300
window
>>(with a scrollbar at the bottom) If I'm thinking right, you'll get a
>>10-degree-wide view of a panoramic scene, and you can look around by
scrolling
>>left and right. Ideally, of course, you'd want to do some perspective
>>correction on-the-fly, necessitating a plugin or some Java code, but if
you
>>keep your viewing angle small it shouldn't make much difference.
>
>Turns out 10 degrees is too narrow an angle. I tried it with a little over
55
>degrees (a 2900x300 image) and it looks great. If you'd like to see it,
point
>your HTML 4.0 compatible browser (IE 4 and above; sorry, NS 4.0x won't cut
it,
>nor, surprisingly, will Amaya) at http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/pantest.html
.
>(I guess I do have a working IE after all...) The image is nothing to
write
>home about, but the technique is stunning.
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