[DM-MUG] OT: Des Moines Register Panorama

[Alan Maupin]

Looks like this type of photography has a lot more depth than I'd  
imagined.  http://www.panoramas.dk/panorama/
History of VR Photography

History of VR Photography

In 1991 Apple Computer launched QuickTime the software that today is  
one of the most popular ways to create and show news, multimedia,  
movie trailers and QTVR.  QuickTime VR was presented as an ad on to  
QuickTime in 1994.  The official QTVR support was in january 1995 and  
in Aug 1997 the QTVRAS - QuickTime VR Authoring Studio was launched.  
Cubic QTVR was released in QuickTime 5 as preview October 10, 2000
The basic idea in QTVR was that you now could make 360 degree  
panoramas by stitching several images together using computer technics  
instead of using special cameras.  Several other developers have  
presented other viewers for panoramic images but the quality of  
QuickTime VR is still the best especially when you compare speed and  
the possibility to display the image in fullscreen..





On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> It's just an image that is overlayed onto the panaorma after the
> images are processed. Looks like they used a pretty high end / modern
> system for taking these kinds of pictures. Notice how there are lots
> of things around the camera that could be moving but appear frozen.
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> An amazing visualization technique.  If you view the panorama and
>> rotate to bottom dead center (directly toward the ground) there is an
>> image of a Canon SLR.  I'm wondering how they created this  
>> Panorama???
>>
>> http://data.desmoinesregister.com/panoramas/carpole_pano/panorama.php
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