PBASE SHOULD SUPPORT QTVR PANORAMA MOVIES

[brenton]

I do a lot of panoramic photography, stitching images together etc,etc, i think it would be great if it was possible for me to display these images as quicktime VR movies in my pbase galleries. It's such a great way to display images over the net if done correctly, and adds a sense of interactivity to a still image.
Is this a possibility in the future?

Brenton.

[srijith]

I dont think pbase has any plans to support movie format. But I could be completely off

[slug]

on the subject of supporting more types of files.

a couple of years ago, we had big problems with mp3s being hosted on PBase which could cause incredible bandwidth usage without warning.

since then i'm somewhat afraid of non image files.

but .docs, .pdfs, .mpgs, .avis, etc etc could all be useful.

i'm not making any promises on when this would happen, but it's definitely a possibility.

i don't know much about QTVR files. have one you could send to me for testing? any info on how to put one on an html page would be helpful too.
send it to help@pbase.com

-slug

[srijith]

on the subject of supporting more types of files.

a couple of years ago, we had big problems with mp3s being hosted on PBase which could cause incredible bandwidth usage without warning.

since then i'm somewhat afraid of non image files.

but .docs, .pdfs, .mpgs, .avis, etc etc could all be useful.

Confused.. wont the ability to upload mpgs and avis be iniviting for trouble both legally and bandwidth related?

[slug]

i'm still afraid of mpgs and avis. mostly for bandwidth reasons.
i'm also afraid of seemingly safe formats like pdf and doc because it's possible to embed all kinds of stuff in them.
had this problem in various forms with people embedding/appending mp3 files to jpgs so that they behaved like a jpg but the image was just a carrier for the mp3.

but qtvr seems fairly safe.

[baja_traveler]

It would be really cool though to be able to post a quicktime slide show file. I make these all the time with subject related music and send them to friends. Agreed though - they can get big on the band width side. Mine seem to average about 3-5 megs depending on length.

[gurl]

I came there because I wanted to post a QTVR image...

I believe panoramas and mosaics are plain photos, not something special to be found only on specialized "panorama photography" sites.

- I easily understand that photos like this one by Bryan Caldwell (CAUTION: 5700 x 9000 pixels = 10 mega bytes downloaded if you click, but it's worth trying!) http://caldwellphotographic.com/Flatiro ... JPEG10.jpg or this one by Max Lyons (full photo is not included because it's 20 times larger than Bryan Caldwell's one!) http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm can't (disk size and bandwidth costs) and should not be (until user's bandwidth and display size are up to that).

I'm not sure QTVR is plain photography but I'm mot sure of the contrary. To make up your own mind: http://www.ecliptique.com/fullscreen2/menu.html# or http://www.panoramas.dk/

Photos with technical comments and tutorials (HTML, PDF) would be a nice complement for this site but they perhaps should be reviewed by some editor and - I'm sure of that from experience on previous http://www.photosig.com - some indexed search would be needed.

Conclusion ? photography on the Web still in it's infancy !

[anhamann]

Hey Slug,

I also think this would be a great idea. Panorama "movies" actually don't require any questionable/abusable file formats. It can be done with a regular JPG plus a GPL licenced Java applet that is 40kb in size, so there are no problems with bandwidth or anything.

Info about the PTViewer here:
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/

I have some of my own panoramas on pbase here:
http://www.pbase.com/anhamann/bc_landscapes

and exactly the same images but with the applet for "movie mode" here:
http://genetics.forestry.ubc.ca/hamann/ ... cESSF.html

It would be great if this could be implemented on pbase.
Cheers, Andy