Glossar

Content-Management-System: System for automated website production. Users with limited script language knowledge will be able to realize and publish webpages. The Content-Management-System (abbr. CMS) is adjustable to the specific content. >>

Design: gr.-lat. Draft, model and concept. The designers products are form-giving ideas and solutions applied on a specific medium. >>

Hyperbolic Panorama: Concept from non-Euclidian Geometry. In this context it refers to the hyperbolic projection of a panorama. The cartography is elaborated through various projection methods in order to develop a two-dimensional map from a sphere like the earth. Example City-view, Example Indoor-view >>

Node, Multinode: Together with QuickTime VR, a node represents a panorama. Multiple nodes can be linked into a »Multi-node Panorama«, which can be thought of as a network from various standpoints and viewpoints ( visual and spatial perspectives). This method has applications in various areas, including, for example, in interactive Tours. The observer moves through a virtual space and, depending on the number of nodes, he/she may see it from different standpoints. >>

Panoramic-Photography: Panoramic: gr.-nlat. »See it all«. Panoramas describe a wide-angle view both in the visual art of painting as well as in photography. Panoramas can be made with special cameras in a single shot. Spherical panoramas with both horizontal and vertical fields of view are often digitally composed from several wide-angle images. (images taken with a fisheye lens, for example) These digital procedures for the »New Projection« of a pictures geometry has also been described as »stitching«. From a technical point of view, professionally stitched Panoramas should be constructed into seamless images with a correct pictorial geometry (i.e. perpendicular verticals and truly horizontal picture horizons.) >>

PlugIn: An extension of the functionality of a computer program. Well-known »browser PlugIns« include »Shockwave«, »QuickTime«, »Acrobat Reader« and »Real Player«. A download of these products is usually free of cost. These small supplementary programs, sometimes described as »Xtra« or »Extensions«, enable a browser to display websites with multi-media content. >>

Spherical: gr.-lat. Related to the earth-sphere. Spherical panoramas construct a total visual field. It gives the observer the illusion of finding himself within a sphere. In order to create a cubic QuickTime VR, the spherical panorama image is mapped digitally on the six surfaces of a cube. >>

Shockwave: An interactive data-format produced by Macromedia. Best known shockwave-format is the widespread flash-format (.swf) and director-shockwave (.dcr) which is generated by »Director« as well as the ».mp3-related« audio-format shockwave-Audio (.swa). >>

Java Viewer: Java-applets make it possible to access interactive panorama images in java-compatible web-browsers without additional plug-ins. The java environment allows the scaling and rotation of spherical panorama images for 360 degrees as well as permitting diverse interactive extensions like a compass. >>

QuickTime VR: An interactive 360°-panorama-format which is part of the Apple QuickTime-Videostandard. The viewer can scale and rotate the QTVR-Panorama as well horizontal as vertical around 360 degrees. Single Panoramas can be joined to »Multinode-Panoramas« and hyperlinks described as »hotspots« can link to other media. There is as well the possibility to add directional sounds and other sprites. QuickTime VR differ according to object- and panoramic-movies. In order to view the panoramas, a free of charge plug-in is needed. >>

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