Panoramas

Mine

Typically I take my photos by hand (without a tripod). I started off using the bundled Panorama editor to make QuickTime VR movies, but I subsequently found the excellent PixAround software package. While it isn't free anymore, the benefit of PixAround is the small (15K) Java applet, instead of the big QuickTime plug-in.

I've found that using my camera's worst quality pictures (1024×768), a complete set of around 20 photos for a 360° panorama takes the same space as three best-quality photos. Best of all, since panoramas tend to end up quite small, the lesser quality is not noticeable!

My Photo Galleries

Lots of my regular photos can be seen in my galleries.

2001-06-05 : My 15 Minutes of Fame?

My panoramas have been selected to appear as part of the PixAround Homeuser Showcase! If you're interested in other panoramas, the showcase is a good place to start.

Other People's

Here are some other pages I've bumped into with panoramas that have caught my interest for one reason or another:

• Jacinto - Taken with a QV-3000
• Ozark Camper

IPIX Shutdown Independent Developers

IPIX (Interactive Pictures Corporation) have shut down Helmut Dersch's web site (mirror), where he provided software to create and display panoramas of all sorts, including spherical projections. IPIX have apparently been granted patents related to spherical projections and have been shutting down many sites that provide spherical panorama projection software - Helmut isn't the only one! Follow the link from the image above for more information.