{"id":11302,"date":"2006-12-10T21:59:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/3-8-gigapixels-of-half-dome-great-flash-panoramas.html"},"modified":"2006-12-10T21:59:59","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T21:59:59","slug":"3_8_gigapixels_of_half_dome_great_flash_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/3_8_gigapixels_of_half_dome_great_flash_pa\/","title":{"rendered":"3.8 Gigapixels of Half Dome; Great Flash panoramas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks at FlashPanoramas.com sell a utility for displaying spherical panoramas via the Flash Player.  They’ve now updated their technology to take advantage of the new full-screen mode<\/a> enabled in the latest rev<\/a> of Player 9.  Check out some very cool examples<\/a>, or get the tool for \u20ac39.95 from their site. [Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Greg Downing & co. at xRez.com are working on Extreme Resolution panoramic image creation.  Check out this 3.8 gigapixel* spherical panorama of Half Dome<\/a>, displayed via the Google Maps API. 
\nAlthough the subject is nearly a mile from the camera position, you can zoom in and see a climber on the face of Half Dome, as well as someone standing on the visor & and hikers along the Merced river in the valley below.
\nWicked!  "By the way," Greg writes, "Photoshop large document format [PSB] was a lifesaver on this project!"<\/p>\n

The xRez site shows off more examples<\/a> and goes into plenty of technical geekery<\/a> for those so inclined.  Greg’s own site offers other interesting bits on HDR panoramas<\/a>, and this QuickTime slideshow<\/a> nicely demonstrates how various elements of a scene can be displayed at different exposures.   (Aside: Is that thing a naval mine or an interrogation droid or…?)  A test render<\/a> of 3D objects lit with an HDR lighting map shows the power of sampling this data from a scene, then feeding it into a 3D rendering package. <\/p>\n

*According to Wikipedia<\/a>, a single gigapixel contains 250 times the data captured by a 4MP sensor. (Of course, at any given moment Wikipedia might claim that I personally have invented over 350 uses for the peanut–but I think it can be trusted in this case.) <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at FlashPanoramas.com sell a utility for displaying spherical panoramas via the Flash Player.  They’ve now updated their technology to take advantage of the new full-screen mode enabled in the latest rev of Player 9.  Check out some very cool examples, or get the tool for \u20ac39.95 from their site. [Via] Elsewhere, Greg Downing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}