[Therion] zoomify

[John Pybus]

Julian Todd wrote:
> Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
>> Hello Julian,
>>
>> it seems that I don't understand what you want. Do you want to show the cave model under fixed viewpoint (animated gif, mpeg...) or shall the user be abel to turn and rotate the model like he wants? Do you also need to include a digital elevation model and surface texture?
>> Wolfgang
>>   
> I've got what I want.  It's something I'm writing for the purposes of 
> Computer Aided Manufacture.  I was asking if anyone else thought it 
> could be applied for those lovely cave renderings you have to make a 
> sort of zoomify in 3D.  That's all. 

Nice idea Julian.  What does your system need on the server?  Are you
making the code available?

I wonder if by constraining the angles of rotation/elevation to e.g.
10-15 deg steps you could prerender rotated and elevated views to speed
up rotation (a la Quicktime VR).

Cheers,

John