divester.com — Underwater panoramas are created when photographers stitch together a dozen or more images taken underwater. When done properly, the panos allow users to dive "virtually" from their computer. Here are some of the best underwater panos in existence.
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orbit1979Jan 4, 2007
These panoramas are incredible. The oceans truly are amazing. I once read that humans have only explored about 2% of the world's oceans, who the hell knows whats down there!
sunitainJan 4, 2007
informative news, but what i object is it's commercial use. i think its too costly for general use.
Closed AccountJan 4, 2007
You can disable it in most browsers. In Firefox - Tools > Options. Content tab. Click the Advanced Button next to "Enable Javascript", and there's a check box that lets you stop sites being able to resize your browser. Not sure how to do it in other browsers.I never understood why sites resize the browser like that - I could understand if they resize it to, say, 800x600px, but all this seems to do it un-maximize it..Anyway, small nit-picking thing : For something that moves around so quickly (fish and such), chances are they didn't stitch these panoramas from loads of images, but rather from maybe 2 or 4 180* Fish-eye images (One facing forwards, one facing back, then maybe one up and down).There's no way they would be able to take 10-20 shots without getting fish cut off, and ghosting and such (Since they'd move. Normal panorams only really work if everything is static)- Ben
thesurferJan 4, 2007
The problem is that if you do not use a resize script you will not see this as it is supposed to be seen.If you are not told you will never resize to fullscreen.The funny thing is that the people who do complain about this are usually Firefox users and they do not even know that they can just remove resizing in the preferences of Firefox.No artist wants his work displayed with a background of stupid icons and disturbing desktop pictures.That's why designers, artists and photographers often use a script to show it in fullscreen.Take it as an advantage, a service for you to get the best experience. I created panoramas.dk 5 years ago and the complaints about this is very small, usually it comes from people who are not at all interested in the content. If they were interested they would see it as a feature.I tried already back in 2002 when the first underwater panorama was published to do special front pages for each panorama and I encouraged people to link to that page (which was not resized.) Did they use it? No not one used it.Actually this panorama is one of them I tested for this. <a class="user" href="http://www.panoramas.dk/tulamben.html">http://www.panoramas.dk/tulamben.html</a>You can not control how bloggers, link sites, news sites link to you and today everyone link directly to the source.
nicolas17Jan 4, 2007
The ones on this page have plain JPEG images: <a class="user" href="http://www.refocus.de/work/underwater/">http://www.refocus.de/work/underwater/</a>
nicolas17Jan 4, 2007
First, if a site isn't usable under Lynx, it sucks. Of course I wouldn't get multimedia content, like the panoramas, but at least read the text. A 100% flash site sucks by definition.Then, why Quicktime? One of the sites let you choose between Quicktime, Macromedia, and Java for the panoramas, that's a great idea. PTViewer (which is Java) can open QTVR files. Quicktime is one of those many programs that get bloated on each new version. I have an old version because newer ones don't work with some game I have.
sesmmJan 4, 2007
THIS ISNT 360 DEGREES BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK UP AND DOWN SO THIS IS CALLED 1080 DEGREES.sorry caps
sblgraphicsJan 5, 2009
Nice...Regards,SBL virtual tours<a class="user" href="http://www.sblgraphics.com/panorama.aspx">http://www.sblgraphics.com/panorama.aspx</a>