Jürgen Eidt's blog

Winter greetings from Bingen, Germany

Overview of Bingen taken from the Burg Klopp (1x5)

Viewing south over Büdesheim (1x2)

Looking over the Rhine valley (1x3)

Viele Grüße
Jürgen

VRlight is a Silverlight solution to display virtual tours (VR) of 360x180 panoramic images in HTML pages.

The update includes Hotspots and Infospots.

Please see http://cpicture.net/vrlight/ for a sample.

New in the package is VRedit, an editor to create and edit the configuration file:

See http://cpicture.net/VRlight/tutorial.html

What panorama players are available? How does the choice of player affect the way a panorama performs? Is the image rendered differently? How long does it take to load? These examples show over a dozen different panorama players, each using basic settings and copies of the same source images, to help find answers to questions such as these.

The panorama players shown here include the venerable (but possibly fading) QuickTime VR itself, a number of Flash and Java-based players (well-known and otherwise), Shockwave, a couple of entirely custom-coded engines, and one that uses Microsoft's Silverlight platform. Among these are the best in the panorama industry, although it is up to you to decide which those are.

http://www.panoramaphotographer.com/comparisons/

Finished the first VR tour using VRlight with an interactive map:

http://cpicture.net/sponsheim/

The village is located near the river Rhine and is first mentioned
in the history in 745 and is about an hour drive from Frankfurt.

The file structure of the tour consists of the executable Silverlight
component (25KB), the configuration file and the tour data of 41 panoramic
images in JPEG with 4000px x 2000px each (1MB).

VRlight is a Silverlight based multi-platform solution to display virtual tours (VR) of 360x180 panoramic images.
VRlight uses equirectangular images in JPEG and has four display modes:

• Vertical stacked images
• Horizontal stacked images
• Dropdown box with tour names
• Interactive map, see example here

Please see http://cpicture.net/vrlight/ for a sample.

Panoramic view Space Needle Park, Seattle, WA

Build in 1962 for the World's fair, the Space needle is a 184m high building in Seattle, WA.
The panorama was shot from the small park west of the Space Needle handhold (without a tripod).

Nikon D700, Sigma 8mm/3.5, ISO200, 1/320s, f/9

Panoramic view Space Needle Fountain, Seattle, WA

Build in 1962 for the World's fair, the Space needle is a 184m high building in Seattle, WA.
The panorama was shot between the fountain and the Space Needle handhold (without a tripod).

This place is also quite busy and I had to wait about 15min to get a view not covered
completly from the cars waiting for valet parking.

The Zenitar-N mounted on Nikon D700.

Sample pictures with 100% crop from the border:

 

f/2.8:

100% crop:

Panoramic view from the castle Burg Klopp in Bingen, Germany

The castle was first build between 1240-1277 and destroyed during the 30 year war from 1618-1648,
rebuild and destroyed again in 1689. The castle as it is today was rebuild in 1875.

Click on the picture to open the panoramic view:

This is a panoramic image from the Seattle Skyline looking over the Elliott Bay.