Photo Gallery Forums

Hi everyone,

I have a feature suggestion: A panorama filemod.

What it should be doing: When you put a flat 360° panorama image like this one in a folder and set it to filemod panorama, it should display the image in a way so that you can actually look around in the image, like this (needs java installed to be displayed correctly).

It's pretty simple to make a flash panorama viewer, but there's currently no elegant way on how to integrate it into a flash text page in imagevue, because such flash text pages are very limited on how to integrate swf or javascript into them. So having such a feature as a filemod would be great, and would also expand the potential imagevue customer base to photographers that specialize in panorama photography.

Also it would be nice for such a panorama filemod, if it had parameters to set the width and height and wether the image should be displayed as a spherical or a cilyndrical panorama.

Thanks for the poll

I can say that very soon there will be scroller integration with large images so that the visitor could horizontally scroll a panorama image. Of course, this does not include any cylindrical distortion of any kind ...

While spherical/cylinder distortion is overkill, but some scrolling when image zoomed up is a must.

pain wrote:...some scrolling when image zoomed up is a must.

for sure! Thank you!

Well, while a scrollbar is definitely a good improvement for imagevue, it is still no solution for the 360° panorama photographers. Creatinge an SWF that can display spherical or cylindrical panoramas is not that hard to do (at least not if you're fairly familiar with flash, which sadly I am not) and there's tons of tutorials on the web on how to do it...

As I said before: Having a panorama viewer integrated in imagevue would make this app more interesting for a new group of potential customers and would imho be very worth the time. Maybe these guys would be willing to share some technology, dunno... But I'd really love to see this feature in some future release of imagevue...

Yea, would be cool ... However, there are so many "but's" when it comes to panorama viewing ... For example the module you are linking to, is very heavy coded and dedicated to viewing panorama images... Yet at the same time it requires hacking up the images into multiple parts. I quote:

panoramaplayer wrote:Notice: file names have standard format [pano name][side suffix].jpg (most of stitcher programs using it), where [pano name] is a panorama name and the [side suffix] can be one of the following: _f - front side, _r - right, _l - left, _b - back, _u - up, _d - down.

If your files have the other widespread name format with _0, _1, _2, _3, _4, _5 suffixes, use pano0.swf file instead. Use panoStripe.swf if you have a single image with six cube faces within ("stripe" format).

Imagevue would have to automate this task, not to speak about creating thumbnails and keeping tracks of images as 1(instead of 6).

As I already requested half a year ago a 'normal' panorama mode would be cool. Just a large image, say 12000 by 600 pixels, shows way too small on my website now. However just a mode where imagevue uses only the height of the picture to scale it, and then have a mouse-hover-scroll modes like the imagebar at the bottom would be the best implementation. I don't need a 360 degree mode, because people can move the image fully to the right or left to view that part.

I'm happy that I've seen this news now. Can't wait for 'soon' to be there

Yep, it will be something like that ...

I will have to mention something in the context when you write "12000 by 600 pixels" - I don't think flash supports that kind of sizes (12000) - I think Flash cuts of images because of memory restrictions at something above 2000 pixels.

Perhaps you meant 1200?

1200 by 600 or even 1800 by 600 is likely what we would use. This is exciting news because so many of us are playing with Photo stitching software. Even Photoshop CS4 has great photomerging capabilities and there is no effective way to simply display these images right now.