Announcement - University of California at Berkeley.

WWP Site: http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/index.html to see earlier Events.

Quote "The previous eight (8) events have created a showcase of VR photography, with 1759 panoramas by 605 photographers from 73 countries. The World Wide Panorama represents everyone in the VR community, from first-timers to professional photographers.

If you have not participated before - you may register and later submit your panorama here Preparation Server: http://128.32.102.88:8090/gen/ 

World Wide Panorama Event "Borders" is scheduled 15 - 21 March 2006.  This period is for taking your panorama.  Following week is preparation and submission time. Borders page is here:

 http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/practical/NextEvent.html

To get a good understanding about the theme "Borders" look here:

http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/practical/NextEvent.html#theme

The WWP has a Yahoo Group and it can be found here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp/

Most importantly:  Lets have fun with this - New folks are most welcome at the WWP.

Dave

Tip:

Try UNsharpening your fisheye panorama image in Photoshop.  That will take some of the fuzziness off the finished image.

Dave

Hi all,

I want to participate in the "Borders" event, which will be my first time, if I can figure this out.  I went out and shot my pano and stitched it together. I have worked strictly with Java based projections so I'm confused about the QTVR format and the file format I need to submit.  I've read the instructions on the WWP website but I still am not sure what I need to send them.

Do I send an equirectangular file or a QTVR with cube faces?  Does the Panoweaver Spherical to Cubic conversion create the right format or do I need the 6 cube faces in separate files?  I have Pano2QTVR Gui and that splits up the cube faces.  I don't sent the a QuickTime ".mov" file do I?

Thanks,

Tom

Hi tdmerch,

I assume you have registered at the WWP and have received your USERID and Password.

You mentioned having already taken your Borders single images.  That is good.  From the 1 original image set  you will need to create 2 spherical pano equirectangular files. Let me see if I can simplify the WWP instructions

Stitch: [stitched pano's should be close to dimensions below]

Standard    3216 wide x 1608 high
Full Screen 6000 wide x 3000 high

Using pano2qtvr specify

Standard: Cube faces 1024 output viewer size 570 x 320
Check to make sure the resulting .mov is between 500 to 700kb

Full Screen: Cube faces 1908 output viewer size 570 x 320
Check to make sure the resuliting .mov is less than 2mb

Full screen.. the automated WWP web page will actually view this .mov at 1000 high x 1200 pixels

Now you have the standard .mov pano file say 600kb and the full screen pano less than 2mb files to upload to the WWP preparation server.  Both these files should be on your local hard drive.

Log into the preparation server, enter your userID and password.  This should  take you to "About the Photographer" page where you enter certain information about your self.  There should be a clickable link that says "Enter the WWP Borders".  Click that and a new page comes up.  You enter information about items like "title of your entry", location, UPLOAD Standard .mov, UPload Full Screen .mov, Geographic location coordinates Lat/Long Elevation, Equipment used to take the panoarma, short text narrative description etc.

For UPloading the Standard and Full screen just click and it will let you browse to your hard drive folder and .mov file... point to your panorama .mov and click  and it will automatically start uploading the panorama. Do the same for the full screen panorama.

Once you have uploaded your standard and full screen .mov... the WWP automation does all the rest.. like creating your unique "about the photographer", standard pano and full screen pano pages.

UPloading the files must be done by March 29 close of business midnight California time.  So if you need more help.. please lets talk and I can work with you and the WWP [yes I have talked with them before helping others get the content moved up to the prep server].

Dave

The time frame to take your panorama is now closed.  Please submit your panorama by 29 March.

Dave

Thanks Dave for your instructions, they were very helpful.  I submitted my panos so I will be part of the game.  It did take some time to fill out all the info. I was not very detailed with descriptions, nor have I added a photo of myself, but they have it set up so the info can be updated.  They sure do have a well designed automated submission form, I was impressed.

Thanks again, Tom

Good.  I need to upload ours today.

You can find us in the alphabetic listing under "Albright".  I use the same photographer photo in the WWP area.

So I should quickly go look at the list  to see how many "Tom's" are being shown from the US.

Dave

Merchant - Minnesota.

A funny story.  I went up to a nice spot overlooking a river between Minnesota and Wisconsin, snowshoes in, took the shot for this WWP event, prepped it and eventually uploaded it a couple days later.  I went to check out my pano on the map and there was another pano taken straight across on the other side of the river.  It was Ed Fink's, the guy that does the fantastic aerial 360s, www.bigeyeinthesky.com.  And I thought I was shooting something unique.

Did you see any snowshoe tracks on the opposite side riverbank ?  Did you see Ed waving back to you?

Yes that is an odd occurance.  You might consider going back in to the prep server and add an "Ed Fink was here"  narrative note.

Dave