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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