VACS Exhibition 2010 as a virtual tour

I have a few works in this Years Venus Artists Contemporary Showcase. So I have decided to try and create a virtual tour. It may not be anywhere close to visiting the exhibitio0n yourself but I hope you can get to appreciate the works.

You can use seadragon (above) to click on the panoramam and zoom in and out or pan along using just your mouse. If you are accessing this on a microsoft windows based machine, you can enjoy an "almost" 3D virtual tour through the exhibition by clicking on the photosynth below.


The exhibition is open daily 10:00am to 4:00pm until Sunday 21st. At The Venus Bay Community Centre, 27 Canterbury Road. Venus Bay

After the heavy rains

Using your mouse you should be able to zoom in and pan along this river scene.

Patterson Panorama

Patterson Panorama, originally uploaded by imageo.

These where part of a set of 12 photos taken from the public walkway at Patterson Lakes. What interested me most was the dramatic sky (no polarizing filter was used by the way) and thought oit would work well with the collagy/fragmented panorama effect. At first I tried hard to keep the horizon essentially level, but in the end I felt the higgledy piggledy twist & tilts added a bit of drama. This was created to be a screen wallpaper for my laptop. I used picasa, using their picture pile collage option, which now lets you slide and rotated images on the screen. I also removed almost half the images from the original series.

Not that the more conventional autostitched panorama is not without drama. Click your mouse on the seadragon panel above and you can zoom in (with the mouse wheel or the + button) and pan around. It is a 180 degree view, and taken hand held, at approximnately 15 degree incriments, which I find give be the right sort of overlap for autostich.

Perth Sunset Panorama

Another Autostitched panorama based on 23 photos

Zooming around

Trying to display wide panoramas on my tiny blog post space has always a disappointment up till now.

That was until I tried out the Microsoft’s  Live Labs tool Sea Dragon, which combines several new technologies to progressively retrieve large amounts of data using a fast, seamless, zoom based interface. Amazingly it works with all types of content, from wall-sized displays to cell phones, regardless of the amount of data or the bandwidth of the network.

Its pretty intuitive just click on the mouse and start moving around, the wheel will zoom you in, or use the plus and minus buttons