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VKNT
05-14-2007, 05:31 PM
It's a schoolproject I have to present tomorrow. It's for a class 'mixed media'. Where you have to do something arty-farty while trying out new techniques...
My starting point was the eye that can be in the most impossible places.
What I did was combining real-life panoramas of the same public space (graslei-Ghent-Belgium) with renders. Trying to make sure at first you don't know where you are, but when looking around, you find out.

The image quality is heavily reduced for webdisplay. So you might see some jpeg artifacts.

http://www.vknt.be/mixedmedia
(click the button to start the panoramas - click the white dots to move to the next panorama)

I hope you like it. C&C welcome.
Jeff
06-09-2007, 11:53 AM
Looks very interesting, I especially like the idea from inside the litter bin. :o

On my computer it runs slowly, and there are a lot of wavey parts in the image. What are the file sizes of the images?

Jeff
VKNT
06-09-2007, 12:13 PM
Hi Jeff
Thank you for your comment.

The file sizes are 1000x1000px jpeg with high compression rate.
I lowered some settings, at the cost of image quality :(
Could you check if it's running better on your computer? And what type of processor you have?
Jeff
06-09-2007, 04:21 PM
Having had a play with it again and knowing your file sizes I think it may be your settings for "friction" and/or "sensitivity" that are making it feel slow to use.

Please be aware that I am new to this, and I could be completely wrong, but it might be worth checking.
I still think it is a good project you have produced.

Jeff
VKNT
06-09-2007, 04:38 PM
Thanks again.

These are my values.
sensitivity = 100
friction=0.60

I intentionally used those values because if the panorama is still moving while a user cliks a hotspot, there is a bad transition from one panorama to the other. That might have to do with my programming though :roll: :wink:

I will try to look into those issues if I find some spare time.
Jeff
06-09-2007, 06:24 PM
Yes I am sure that is the problem.
The high sensitivity and low friction are fighting each other.
Try the default values (if I remeber correctly):-
sensitivity 50
friction 0.85

Jeff
VKNT
06-09-2007, 07:15 PM
Done that. I agree it's much better. :)
Thanks for the help.
Jeff
06-09-2007, 10:02 PM
Glad to be able to help, usually it is me asking for help.
Let me know when you have some more to see.
Jeff