FLASH: Re: 360 VR Question...

[Ray Broussard]

iPix (I cannot recommend technology from this company & predict you will regret

any interaction with them) is based on a fisheye image mapped to the inside

surface of a sphere. QTVR is based on a rectilinear image mapped to the inside

surface of a cylinder. QT is supposed to soon start supporting QTVR images

mapped to the inside surface of cubes. It is very easy to mimic QTVR behavior in

Flash, even the up, down,zoom in, out and even auto panning guided tours. But,

unless you want to write action scripts to dewarp the image (is that even

possible?) then you would want to first remap the image with Helmut Dersch's

PanoTools PS Plugin (http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch ) so the image doesn't

look distorted. No, you cannot display any QT content within a  SWF or Flash

Projector. Yes, there are many examples of Flash based QTVR mimics on the web,

but sorry I don't have any URLs for you. However, if this is going on a CD, and

quality is an issue, you would probably deliver a much better product if you

used QTVR in Director.


Ray Broussard

http://PhotographicVR.com


>Hello all,

>

>    I have a question that is more of a curiosity issue on my behalf, but it 

>may be something that i will use in the future, so i figured i'd at least 

>ask... Does anyone if it is possible (using flash only) to create something 

>that would basically mimic that iPix effect? I know that it is possible to 

>create 360 rotating images, but what about scrolling up and down on the image 

>as well as side to side? Has anyone actually done this with any success, and 

>if so, does anyone know of a link to where i could view it? I have a client 

>who i do business cards for in flash, and he has mentioned that he liked the 

>iPix idea, and he may want to use something like it in the future... would 

>the QuickTimeVR import nicely into Flash so that it would work normally? or 

>would i run into problems trying to import it? (keep in mind that anything 

>will work, this would be done for a projector file, and i have no concern 

>over the file size).

>

>Hope someone can help  :-)

>

>Best Regards,

>

>       John Ward

>www.DigitalRodder.com


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