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Pinewood Panorama (java)

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Karsten Schneeberger

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The Pinewood Panorama was my first single row panorama test with Panasonic DMC-LC1 and RRS panorama head back in 2006. At this time I did not know how to present really big panorama files over the internet in a web browser and the only option was the use of Java:

I used PTgui to stich the panorama and Helmut Dersch's Java-Applet ptviewer.jar to show the 1.8 MB JPEG file in the browser. The original 8-bit stitched picture is 164 MB and size is 13044 x 4403 pixel. I tested different software with the original out-of-camera JPEG files in 2006 and very soon found out that PTgui was much better than the competition Kekus PTmac or Realviz Stitcher.

http://karstenschneeberger.com/pinewood_java/pinewood.html

From early 2008 on I now use pano2vr to showcase panoramic pictures in flash fullscreen. More in the next posts...

Karsten

PS: here is the preview...

pinewood_preview.jpg
 
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nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
As nice as the Flash version!
much faster to load but of course one can't get the full screen…
I guess Flash is better spreaded on all computers than Java nowadays… is there a way to make the Flash version lighter but to keep some good IQ?
 
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Karsten Schneeberger

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Hi Nicolas,

it very much depends on the picture size to use in full screen mode and on the jpeg settings in Pano2VR. To me this is a trial and error process, where I stop trying again, when I am satisfied with the full screen image quality, sometimes already at 8 MB flash file size.

Since java and also quicktime is not included with most windows xp or vista installations, the only reasonable approach is to use flash.

Karsten





Nicolas Claris said:
As nice as the Flash version!
much faster to load but of course one can't get the full screen…
I guess Flash is better spreaded on all computers than Java nowadays… is there a way to make the Flash version lighter but to keep some good IQ?
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