With Firefox 4 landing soon and webGL support increasing ( chrome, safari .. maybe even IE someday ) ... it would probably be best to use something like: http://webuser.hs-furtwangen.de/~dersch/PTViewerNG/PTViewerNG.html
It looks like that was hacked up fairly quickly ... but someone would have to improve its support across modern browsers and possibly have a fall-back to flash mechanisms for viewers.
I will definitely put looking at that in my long term todo list. I think it would make for an interesting plugin for the sequencer efforts as well, ie including pans on panoramas as section of a documentary.
--michael
On 09/15/2010 12:49 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote:
Hey Robin, so I guess I'll answer here instead of on my userpage [1]
After a quick look I got the impression that krpano is currently state of the art but you may know another program.
krpano is not an option, it is non-free. A alternative would be panosalado2, but last time I checked it had numerous problems, such as
- lack of documentation
- the need to re-project images into a cube panorama format before the
multiresolution modus works (needed to get an improvement for large images over the current viewer)
- lack of cylindrical projection support
- lack of cut-off spherical pano support
The last two points mean that approximately 99.9999% of the panos on commons will NOT work with Panosalado.
Believe me I looked hard for an alternative, and all I got was hours of grief! Daniel
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dschwen#Panoramic_viewer
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