More
complicated image processing methods are introduced to increase
the live effects to the viewers on the net.
Movie
Again,
in this page from MIT Media Lab by Glorianna Davenport
provides some images in Quicktime VR format. It provides
a live show of a brief interview with some people.
The images
taken by this method tend to create big files.
Panoramic Walkthrough
In
this website, the creator used a special camera to catch
images and write java applets to create a walkthrough.
The image size is largely reduced compared to the traditional
method by taking video cam to catch the images and process
them in an application.
VRML Walkthrough
In
this website, the museum has a tour in VRML. It gives
a lot of interaction with surfers. The reviewers can
also click on the items in the display case to retrieve
the images of the exhibit items from database and view them.
Sometimes, the nevigation is not easy to cruise through
with the function provided by VRML.
| Advantages |
Disadvantages |
- effective
presentation of the information or ideas
- lots
of stimulation and interaction
- enable
to be incorporated with database and search engine
|
- large
files
- taking
long time to load for most of them
- requiring
different plug-ins
|
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