Garden Gnome Software

Using Pano2VR is just as a hobby for me and I still have a lot to learn. I'm especially interested in using it to create virtual hikes.

My results so far can be seen at:

lookabout.net
http://lookabout.net

Only flash support at this point. I'm studying up on HTML5.

Thanks to all the folks who make Pano2VR such a great package!

Hi
some nice shots

I would suggest: try to master the 360°x360° and get away from the 180°x360°

Zap:

Thanks for the feedback! That is a direction that I am trying to move in. I started out with a home-made pano adaptor which was poorly suited to anything but a "horizontal strip" panorama (which I assume is what you mean by 180x360). With my old adaptor, trying to pan up or down for more vertical coverage caused the lens to loose its nodal point. I have a Nodal Ninja now, though, so I have no more excuses. I'm hoping the sky will be no limit for my future panos, so to speak.

Thanks again for looking.

Ben

If you woke up this morning in the mood to see some 360 degree virtual oil paintings, you’re in luck (so long as your browser supports Flash). I have posted three at:

http://lookabout.net/Mendocino/final/mendocino.htm

Follow the “paintbrush” hotlinks in each of the three Mendocino panoramas to transition from the normal photographic panorama to the corresponding simulated oil painting. Another hotlink is provided in the painting to transition back. The artistic effect becomes more pronounced as you zoom in.

Pretty or pretty weird, these are the product of applying the Adobe Photoshop “Oil Paint” filter to a PTgui panoramic jpeg before it’s fed into Pano2VR.

Sorry, still no HTML5 support.

Ben

Hi Ben, GREAT presentation. Thank you for the show and tell.

Here's something a bit different, a collection of Pano2VR produced HTML5 format pictures and panoramas organized under what's called an "Esri story map":

http://lookabout.maps.arcgis.com/apps/M ... f49f79419a

These are all pictures I took at a class I attended on Native American rock art.

Seems to work fine under Chrome and Firefox but Internet Explorer 11 hits intermittent WebGL and memory errors. I'm still trying to figure out a fix for that.

Anyway, see what you think.

Ben

Yes, just not another panorama but a great presentation loaded with historical information.

As I started the tour, I kept thinking.. where is this place and how can I get there to see this location first hand. Maybe adding the name of the closest town would help get me located. Then I found that the mapping service had a zoom out to see real world. Southern California near the Nevada border. I also saw the Naval bombing range at China Lake notation. Maybe not a good idea to visit this area. Although your site is a Public National Park so maybe access from the East?

Great educational presentation, just enough, historical information, single images and panoramas to hold my interest. I particularly like the tripod setup locations.. just enough vertical height to see the artwork. Images are white balanced correctly. Maybe next time try a few 18' foot high pole panoramas would help to show from a different perspective.

Thanks! I was fortunate to have one of the instructors from the class do most of the text for me. That added a lot.

I'll check out the 18' poles. Something new to figure out but it would definitely give an interesting perspective on locations like this.

Ben

Regarding access to the site, because it is located on the China Lake navy base, the only way in is with an escorted tour. The one I took was offered through this class: http://rockart101.com/.

It is a fascinating place to visit.

Ben

A couple of the links in my earlier posts have been obsolete for some time now so here are some updates.

There were concerns that the location information in my presentation on Little Petroglyph Canyon was too precise given the sensitive nature of the site. As a result, I reformatted it to drop the maps. This is the link to the revised presentation: http://lookabout.net/Little%20Petroglyp ... ry_01.html.

The link I had provided to the “Rock Art 101” course is no longer active but anyone interested in visiting the canyon can arrange a tour through the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest: http://maturango.org/petroglyph-tours/ .

The petroglyph presentation no longer uses the Esri Story Map format, which is very much oriented to integrating text and images with maps. I am preparing another set of panoramas on points of interest in Redlands California as an example of how that format works with Pano2VR content. Unfortunately, my “day job” keeps me pretty busy and I haven’t made much progress on it. What I have so far can be seen at this link: http://lookabout.maps.arcgis.com/apps/M ... 6f85c3bf03.

Over the last year I have been plugging away adding content to my presentation on my home town, Redlands, California:

http://lookabout.maps.arcgis.com/apps/M ... 6f85c3bf03

I think it has finally become a reasonable example of what can be done with Pano2VR Pro and Esri "story maps". Hopefully a decent look at the city and its history also.

Ben