KrPano is great for 360`s but I find it even more interesting for gigapixel zoomable flat images, with the new psb support in krpanotools.
The reason is its scriptability, that makes it better suited then e.g OpenZoom and Silverlight DeepZoom which is more demanding to script.
In some discussions some people find many gigapixel zoomable images a bit boring, and i tend to agree. To utilize the potential of the new image format the images must be authored and scripted with creativity to help the user experience the image. ( Some thougts in a discussion at AutoPano forum: http://www.autopano.net/forum/p56890-today-14-20-54#p56890 )
I believe KrPano might be powerful enough to present gigapixel images with excellence but its still early times and I`m not aware of any really outstanding cases that shows KrPanos potential for gigapixel images.
Hopefully some of you know or have made great cases I`m not aware of, but it would be interesting if we together could discuss and push the limits for KrPano gigapixel images and maybe collaborate to make some scripting templates ?
One of the features I miss in KrPano for gigapixel images is what is called Sparse Images in DeepZoom terminology. Its basically an aerea in the image pyramide that has more depth/resolution than the rest of the image. May this be fauxed/hacked in KrPano by manually adding more depth/image tiles ?
Any ideas on the subject(s) ?
John Myrstad