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Has anyone seen a 360° panorama javascript image display anywhere?

Assuming a photograph is used which is perfectly stitched together - such
as for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2...ycourtyard.jpg - I'm
searching for a JS/CSS type of solution including the possible to smoothly
pan left or right, autoplay and pause, while showing only a narrower
rectangular "normal size" image segment at any one time. Panning, auto pan
and pause may be done with control buttons below the image for example.

In article <f44kfg$eea$00$>,
Tuxedo <> wrote:

> Has anyone seen a 360° panorama javascript image display anywhere?

I haven't seen anything, but in hacking up a demo my guess is that the
main reason you don't see it done much is because a simple pan doesn't
do any correction for perspective.

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Doc O'Leary wrote:

> In article <f44kfg$eea$00$>,
> Tuxedo <> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone seen a 360° panorama javascript image display anywhere?
>
> I haven't seen anything, but in hacking up a demo my guess is that the
> main reason you don't see it done much is because a simple pan doesn't
> do any correction for perspective.

Thanks for the reply. Did you hack up a demo?

Tuxedo wrote:
> Doc O'Leary wrote:
>
>> In article <f44kfg$eea$00$>,
>> Tuxedo <> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone seen a 360° panorama javascript image display anywhere?
>> I haven't seen anything, but in hacking up a demo my guess is that the
>> main reason you don't see it done much is because a simple pan doesn't
>> do any correction for perspective.
>
> Thanks for the reply. Did you hack up a demo?
>
And - if you did - I'd be interested too. Don't care about perspective,
because there won't be any, but I want to pan around (effectively) the
six faces of a cube from the inside of it and show whichever bits of
whatever faces are in the viewport.

"Tuxedo" <> wrote in message
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> Has anyone seen a 360° panorama javascript image display anywhere?
>
> Assuming a photograph is used which is perfectly stitched together - such
> as for example
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2...ycourtyard.jpg - I'm
> searching for a JS/CSS type of solution including the possible to smoothly
> pan left or right, autoplay and pause, while showing only a narrower
> rectangular "normal size" image segment at any one time. Panning, auto pan
> and pause may be done with control buttons below the image for example.

http://barefile.com.au/pan/ ?

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In article <f47d4o$1c$1$>,
The Magpie <> wrote:

> Tuxedo wrote:
> > Doc O'Leary wrote:
> >
> >> In article <f44kfg$eea$00$>,
> >> Tuxedo <> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anyone seen a 360° panorama javascript image display anywhere?
> >> I haven't seen anything, but in hacking up a demo my guess is that the
> >> main reason you don't see it done much is because a simple pan doesn't
> >> do any correction for perspective.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Did you hack up a demo?
> >
> And - if you did - I'd be interested too.

There's nothing really interesting to show. All I did was scratch the
itch to verify that I could restrict an image view with CSS and change
it with JavaScript events. Google Maps essentially does the same thing,
and it's even easier to do a panorama because there is no XMLHttpRequest
to deal with.

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rf wrote:

> http://barefile.com.au/pan/ ?

Thanks for the quick muck-up. There must exist a way for this to nicely
work in CSS and Javascript. The type of panoramas I mean usually exist in
platform dependent Java or some other exotic proprietary plug-in, which may
cause a browser crash on the average speed PC, let alone work on Linux or
OSX. Nevertheless, this is quite a nice Java example, which also does
vertical panning:
http://www.rundbild.com/de/beispiel/...-grundriss.htm

"Tuxedo" <> wrote in message
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> rf wrote:
>
>> http://barefile.com.au/pan/ ?
>
> Thanks for the quick muck-up. There must exist a way for this to nicely
> work in CSS and Javascript.

Yes, there is. It's rather trivial to a button to start a timer to
periodically change the scroll position of that div, or the *relative*
position of the image within that div. Of course then overflow: hidden;
would be appropriate.

Here you go:
http://barefile.com.au/pan/

Of course you should not do this a home. You will drive your viewers nuts.

> The type of panoramas I mean usually exist in
> platform dependent Java or some other exotic proprietary plug-in, which
> may

Which is why I do not have java installed.

> cause a browser crash on the average speed PC, let alone work on Linux or
> OSX. Nevertheless, this is quite a nice Java example, which also does
> vertical panning:
> http://www.rundbild.com/de/beispiel/...-grundriss.htm

I see nothing there that is panning. But then I don't have jave installed,
nor flash or all those other things.

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rf wrote:

> http://barefile.com.au/pan/

That is totally cool, many thanks for posting this example!

> Which is why I do not have java installed.

Perhaps it will reincarnate, but for now Java embedded on a web page is and
always has been a pretty stupid idea.

> I see nothing there that is panning. But then I don't have jave installed,
> nor flash or all those other things.

I agree here too, although Flash has some good features, which
unfortunately cannot be replicated with any open source alternatives.

rf wrote:

> http://barefile.com.au/pan/?

I had very good experiences with

http://krolik.net/PIV.jsp

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