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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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