Jürgen Eidt's blog

Seaside, OR
Finally a sunny day in the summer. And a busy one too. After finishing an assignment I decided to get a 360x180 from Lewis and Clark.
This is a handheld spherical panorama made form 4+Z+N (4 shots horizontal and 1 up, the Zenit, and 1 down, the Nadir):

[Created with cPicture, 'Picture Index Ctrl+Y' using Film style border]

A circular 8mm Fisheye on a full frame 35mm Camera covers 180° horizontal and vertical. See how to make a panoramic picture out of that.

Located north of Seattle Center, the McCaw Hall is a performance hall and opera house.

While walking along Mercer St, I noticed a convoy guarded by police on motor cycles. Not that this is unusual here, but this convoy didn't seem to end. The convoy finally ended with 3 coach buses and a medical ambulance, while I snapped this panorama handheld.
Once they past, the almost empty Mercer street was opened again for traffic on Friday, June 18. 2010 at 2.35pm.

Click here for the interactive 360x180 Panoramic using
VRlight showing the end of the convoy.

VRlight is a Silverlight based multi-platform solution to display virtual tours (VR) of 360x180 panoramic images.
Version 2.0 has a new editor VRedit for the configuration to create VR projects.

Triomedia, a leading German VR company, just finished their latest release of Triocity and replaced all the Flash based VR content with this new Version!

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

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.