Create an environment in Maya w/ or w/o hdr.  Keyframe camera. Render.  Give it to next in line in FX pipeline for compositing
HDview allows the set creation of starting points in terms of FOV.  I bet they can make a keyframe-able app that auto zooms and pans.  BTW  MS web applications are very cpu optimized for servers.

Aeriscera wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Some friends and I have been hacking gigapan.org code to make cheap and cheerful rolling demos of zooming in and out of big panos. It really is hacking - we need the gp team to find the time to contribute. Here is a very rough example - it is a proof-of-concept only.

A question: what technologies and tools exist to do this properly? A video camera? :-)

Aeris.

Not a half bad demo, as an expat of Bath I really appreciated the tour and it shows how much we miss just 'looking' at panoramas. I would like to know more of how you hacked GP.

I tried to capture a tour of a group of images I posted on Photosynth using screen capture/screen cast software as there is no way to download output from Photosynth. The trouble was the 5 minute tour ended up being 350Mb although I could probably improve on that with some serious recompression.

Last edited by BrianLR (2008-11-25 00:58:09)

AlexandreJ wrote:

Interesting idea : scripting panorama viewer to make multimedia presentation ...
For the moment, I think you may be the only one that did that, so let's just design the right tool for you

Ahhh I'm also interested!!! as have been looking for something like this for Gigapixel images which would be especially useful for educational use for sometime now. You now have two people waiting for panorama scripting

Last edited by Gordon (2008-11-25 20:05:30)

Thanks Alexandre. Can I have it done by Christmas please? All text should be rendered in 3D and there should be a drop down menu so that you can chose the film star that you want to hear speak the words eg Darth Vader, Barbera Streisand, Buster Keaton etc.

More seriously, you may want to have a chat with Apapane because Illah at Gigapan is already interested in this idea.

For those of you with access to the GP forum, the thread starts here.

At the moment I am using a Perl script to generate the web page from a list of coordinates. What it really needs is a timeline that one can cut and past the captions and snapshots into.

Aeris.

Last edited by Aeriscera (2008-11-25 11:45:32)