Doing Panoramas

Erica is kicking around the idea of making some money off of her fancy camera by doing some real estate shots, especially panoramas. We've been looking into it and it seems like something that we can do, leveraged by my own techno-dweeb background.

I created a little javascript program to display panoramas. This code is simple - about twenty lines of code - and works better than the stuff that you pay for. It will work on most browsers that support cascading style sheets, which is about 99%.

I went into the back yard and took 10 overlapping pictures. I then loaded them into a progam called iVista Panorama. It took about 15 minutes, but the progam did a nice job. I resized the image (it is still about 400k) and put it in a web page. You can see the watermark running along the center of the image left by the free version of the software.

You can see it at my www.paperthetown.com domain. It still has a loading problem and sometimes you have to press refresh to see the who image. I have to fix that.