After a lot of work, the next, totally rewritten Flash 10-based panorama engine, PanoSalado2 is ready for display. The huge new feature is that it supports tiled, multi-resolution panoramas output by Zoomify (tm).
Tiled panoramas allow for giga-pixel resolution cube faces, with minimal over the network load delay, and minimal processor overhead since the minimal set of tiles for the pan, tilt, and field of view need be loaded. So, as a quick example, the demonstration cube faces measure 5885 pixels square, for a total of 207,799,350 pixels in the whole panorama (5885 x 5885 x 6). That is over 200 million pixels in the whole panorama, at the highest resolution.
And on my humble machines: a 5 year old Mac G5 tower, and an Intel MacBook, the display is cinematic. Give it a try, seeing is believing.
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Use SpinControl:VR's intuitive interface to access the powerful PanoSalado engine, and you'll ask "What could be better?". :-)
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