Last Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags Pano...promise

Panoramic stitched image

HD View (Win or Mac) with perspective correction (Win only) - View Fullscreen: hover over image and hit the "F" key. Mouse scroll wheel zooms

(Long load times could result in a blurry image until buffering finishes)

Using HD View in this Blog

No Gigapan for this pano because it's smaller than 50 megapixels

More Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags

Panoramic stitched image

HD View (Win or Mac) with perspective correction (Win only) - View Fullscreen: hover over image and hit the "F" key. Mouse scroll wheel zooms

(Long load times could result in a blurry image until buffering finishes)

Using HD View in this Blog

No Gigapan for this pano because it's smaller than 50 megapixels

Yet Another Salisbury Crags Shot

Panoramic stitched image

HD View (Win or Mac) with perspective correction (Win only) - View Fullscreen: hover over image and hit the "F" key. Mouse scroll wheel zoomsUsing HD View in this Blog

Gigapan view with zoom to photo (get photo details by clicking blue title to visit Gigapan site)

Edinburgh Castle 360 pano

Panoramic stitched image

HD View (Win or Mac) with perspective correction (Win only) - View Fullscreen: hover over image and hit the "F" key. Mouse scroll wheel zoomsUsing HD View in this Blog

Gigapan view with zoom to photo (get photo details by clicking blue title to visit Gigapan site)

Pentland Hills and Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags

Panoramic stitched image

HD View (Win or Mac) with perspective correction (Win only) - View Fullscreen: hover over image and hit the "F" key. Mouse scroll wheel zoomsUsing HD View in this Blog

Gigapan view with zoom to photo (get photo details by clicking blue title to visit Gigapan site)

Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags

Panoramic stitched image

HD View (Windows or Mac) with perspective correction (Windows only) - View FULLSCREEN, just hit the "F" keyUsing HD View in this Blog

Gigapan view with zoom to photo (get details by clicking blue title visit Gigapan site)

Using HD View in this Blog

Help

HD View is a plugin that currently supports all major browsers on the Windows platform. The first time that you visit a page with HD View content you will be prompted to install the HD View plugin. After this, it should automatically load the content.

For you evil Apple users the SL version of HD View should work but you won't get any perspective correction.

The Most Important Button:

These images were meant to be show FULL Screen. Click this button in the upper right hand corner to view them in all their glory

Navigation:

There are two mouse-based interaction modes. You can switch between modes with the following icons in the upper right corner of the screen or by using the 'H' short-cut key.

	Map mode: Drag the image left/right and up/down with the left mouse.
	QTVR mode: Panning is achieved by clicking the left mouse and moving it away from the click position

Keyboard controls can also be used. You can zoom in/out with the mouse wheel, or with the +/- keyboard keys, or zoom in by double clicking the left mouse, shift-double click left mouse zooms out.

Tone Adjustment:

There are three tone adjustment modes. You can switch between modes with the following icons in the upper right corner of the screen or by using the 'T' or 'shift'-'T' short-cut key.

	No Adjustment
	Exposure Only Adjustment
	Compress or Expand the Dynamic Range as necessary

When browsing very large images often times the ideal tone balance can not be pre-computed. For example a dark region may be appropriately dark when zoomed out, but when zooming into that area some gain may be necessary to see details. Much like the auto gain on a camera, tone adjustment attempts to compute the 'best' adjustment for the pixels currently in view. Please see our Soapbox video for more details on tone-adjustment.

Below is a table of some examples of how tone adjustment works. Click on any of the images to access the permalink and see it in action.

In the first case the user has zoomed into a mountain that is part of a much larger gigapixel image. Exposure only mode doesn't do much as the region is already reasonably exposed. However the curve mode automatically determines that the scene is a bit flat and adjusts the contrast.

In the second case the user has zoomed all the way out on a High Dynamic Range (HDR) scene. Here exposure mode has the same difficulty a camera would have capturing this scene and it picks an exposure that compromises between indoor and outdoor parts of the scene. In curve mode HD View determines that a dynamic range compression is necessary for this particular view on the scene and it performs an on the fly 'tone-mapping'. Unlike other tone-mapping techniques this one is continuously recomputed given the scene in view.