Hi.Family Day is fantastic and works fine on Win 98 SE (QT version). Do you
have time to explain with some detail how you created these, from the POV
scene to the final viewing stage? That would be a huge help...
Thanks very much,
Dennis


"Gilles Tran" <git### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
news:3f0737bd@news.povray.org...
> After following some of the advice I was given here, I made a couple of

> spherical panoramas.
>
> "Family" image
> Quicktime version
> http://www.oyonale.com/ldc/english/family_day_qt.htm
> Java applet (PTViewer) version
> http://www.oyonale.com/ldc/english/family_day_jv.htm
> Both pages are 650 kb. I'm sorry for the size but smaller ones and higher
> compression don't do justice to the image.
>
> Another panorama image is a view of the International Space Station. I
found
> a very nice POV-Ray model of it and thought I'd give it a try. I added it
to
> the "Reach for the stars" museum section.
> http://www.oyonale.com/iss/english/museum_08.htm
> The page shows a static image and there are links to the QT and PTViewer
> panorama versions (around 200 kb each).
>
> I've only tested this with IE6 under XP so if you have problems with other
> browsers and OS let me know.
>
> The PTViewer applet is part of the Panotools suite and can be downloaded
> here
> http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch
> QT is slightly faster than the applet for rotating and zooming, at least
for
> the large panoramas. Also, as the 6 panes are loaded progressively, you
can
> start enjoying it before it's fully loaded. The main drawback is that it
> requires QT 5 or higher installed.
> The applet is probably more cross-platform and depends on Java 1.04.
>

> angle) to QTVR was a little tricky. Most people used to do it with the
> "developer's code" utilities provided by Apple (MakeVRPano, GoCubic) but
> these utilities are barely functional with more recent systems or
> configurations and Apple removed them from its QTVR utility page. You can
> Google them up to find them on some personal websites and see if they work
> with your system.
>
> The alternate solution I used here requires 2 free utilities (Windows
only)
> : one is Panocube http://www.panoshow.com/panocube.htm and PTStitcher from
> the Panotools suite above. It's quirky (Panocube must be installed in a
> directory without spaces in its name...) but it does the job, and I
haven't
> come across a better (free) way to create spherical/cubic QTVRs with
Windows
> For PTViewer, no conversion is required as it reads a JPEG. There's a
> version supposed to work with QTVR but it didn't work for me.
>
> G.
>
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