These photographs were taken on May 17th and 19th 2003. The ever evolving museum has already changed with the addition of a ferris wheel, and soon to come are more slides and cave expansions (see the last three panormaics for a preview of these).
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If you don't have the free QuickTime Player click the logo to download it.
You can also click the text below the image to view using java
The individual media files are around 400 to 700k each (QT or java) so will take a little time with dial up connection. The quicktime file will first come in blurry and then fill in as it gets time. With java you will have to wait till full load to view.
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view from above the trampline
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view from the bridge
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standing on the airplane wing
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view from the castle
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view from the tempietto
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whale in the parachute room
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at the whale's mouth
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in the splash zone
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the main room of the cave
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the main lobby
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cave expansion - dinosour room
(under construction as of June' 03)
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deeper into the cave expansion
(under construction as of June' 03)
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above the cave expansion is the slide tower
(under construction as of June' 03)
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For now these are just pretty simple interactive panoramic photos. What else could be done to them? They can be linked to each other or other media, keyed to a plan with a compass point showing which way you are looking, and they can have both ambient and directional sound.
The City Museum is a great place, don't miss it if your near downtown St. Louis. If you have kids and want them to burn off some energy so they will sleep this should do the trick; of course it does the same for adults as well. Don't let the name fool you, there is very little museum like to the place; there is almost nothing in a display case or that you can't touch and climb on.
For More Information on the The City Museum visit their website
Technical Information about these Panoramic Photographs:
- Shot with Sony F717 and Raynox FE180 Pro on a Kaidan QPS1 head
- Shot middle row of 8 shots and 4 each at +/- 50 degrees, also down shot to patch out tripod.
- Pre-Corrected Shots with Pano Tools Plugin to Photoshop
- Stitched with Realviz Stitcher - with very little other than levels and curves work done in Photoshop.
- Effective image size (before reduction for use on web) greater then 30 mega-pixels.
The Raynox lens is new to my setup and I was really happy with the end results and the effect it has on both my shooting and post-production time. Shooting 16 shots instead of the 32 or so it would take with my Sony VCL-MHG07 wide angle. With the Raynox I was even able to shoot 3,6,3 instead of 4,8,4 but was too tight for comfort. I'm not ready to retire my Sony lens just yet as it provides higher resolution which will be useful when large format prints are needed. If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them, just send me an email.
For your reference here is a link to my travel setup and some other current panoramic work:
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