David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> How can the program get smooth pictures of any angle from two fisheye views?
> 

The views cover all areas visible from the current viewpoint. For a fixed
viewpoint, that's all the information you need.

Margus

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Ken wrote:
> 
> Check it out - http://home4.inet.tele.dk/ibras/panorama.htm

Oh hell, this thing crashed my machine when I tried to kill the window. This is
the last time I will enamble Java on my browser.
The images were nice though.

Margus

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In article <38C9252D.C14F0AC9@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg 
wrote:

> Check it out - http://home4.inet.tele.dk/ibras/panorama.htm

Personally, I like QTVR better. It does some kind of smoothing so 
zooming looks better, and allows you to move around to different "nodes" 
within the scene. But it doesn't seem to get used very much, and there 
aren't many tools for it...

And anyway, this is Java, so it runs on nearly any machine. That is 
quite a big advantage...

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> Ken wrote:
> >
> >
> >Mike Weber wrote:
> >>
> >> Looks good, but didn't work for me.... :(  using IE5.0
> >
> >It took a very long time for the applets to load using Netscape 4.72
> >but once they finally appeared they worked as advertized. You may
> >want to try again. It took maybe 3-5 min. before I was able to see
> >each one.
>
> I have the same problem as Mike but It's because I don't want to download
> Microsoft Virtual Machine (4.5 Meg) since I'm on a 33.6k modem. I just
> _hate_ M$
>
> Jide

By any chance can you get free AOL CD's where you are? That's a quick way
over here to get MSIE 5.0 and I think it includes their VM.

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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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Hi Josh English, you recently wrote in povray.general:

> This is great. I'm glad he explains his techniques.
Where does he do that? I found no reference to how he sets up the
POV-Ray camera or any script examples, only the hardware and software
he used.

Did I miss something?

- Lutz
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  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Lutz Kretzschmar wrote:
> 
> Hi Josh English, you recently wrote in povray.general:
> 
> > This is great. I'm glad he explains his techniques.
> Where does he do that? I found no reference to how he sets up the
> POV-Ray camera or any script examples, only the hardware and software
> he used.
> 
> Did I miss something?

Yep :)  If you look on the train station page -

http://home4.inet.tele.dk/ibras/hbg57.htm

Towards the bottom of the page he describes the POV-Ray fisheye camera
he used plus he also lists all of the software he used to compose the
final image and the software used to compile the applet.

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Margus Ramst wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
> >
> > How can the program get smooth pictures of any angle from two fisheye views?
> >
>
> The views cover all areas visible from the current viewpoint. For a fixed
> viewpoint, that's all the information you need.

I imagine it could eaisly find the location in the image for a specific pixel in a
specific viewpoint, but I thought there would be a lot more artifacts than it
showed. They were only rendered at 700x700, and the view appears to be
320x240(?)... (Although there is some bad distortion if you look straight up or
down, it's probably because of the 6 degree overlap the person used. I'm just
talking about general loss of quality when distorting a bitmap.)

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Actually, I checked and it looks like this technique will allow you to have
hotspots to go onto the next item. I prefer QTVR as well,but I haven't
gotten a hold of the Quicktime Authoring Studio so I can only make single
node scenes

Josh

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <38C9252D.C14F0AC9@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg
> wrote:
>
> > Check it out - http://home4.inet.tele.dk/ibras/panorama.htm
>
> Personally, I like QTVR better. It does some kind of smoothing so
> zooming looks better, and allows you to move around to different "nodes"
> within the scene. But it doesn't seem to get used very much, and there
> aren't many tools for it...
>
> And anyway, this is Java, so it runs on nearly any machine. That is
> quite a big advantage...
>
> --
> Chris Huff
> e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
> Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:27:34 -0800, "Jon A. Cruz"
<jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:
>
>By any chance can you get free AOL CD's where you are? That's a quick way
>over here to get MSIE 5.0 and I think it includes their VM.

I had a friend screw-up another friend's machine by installing AOL's
software. He already had an internet provider (ATT WorldNet) and
already had a browser installed. After the AOL install, almost all his
settings regarding the internet were automatically changed without
asking him first. He could no longer access his email or much else. It
took me a good deal of effort to reset everything for him again. 

Of course the person who tried to install AOL could have always made
some sort of mistake, I guess. Neither one of these fellows was
extremely computer litterate, but I thought the first fellow could
have handled an AOL install.

Later,
Glen Berry

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:12:56 -0500, Glen Berry wrote:
>Of course the person who tried to install AOL could have always made
>some sort of mistake, I guess. Neither one of these fellows was
>extremely computer litterate, but I thought the first fellow could
>have handled an AOL install.

I think AOL is currently being sued for the changes their install makes
to the existing configuration, apparently without asking (or if it does
ask, it's in such a way that it's easy to miss.)  I could be wrong, of
course.

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