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Have you created a panorama with ICE?  Post a link here and show your masterpiece to the world.  Remember, not everyone has a super fast broadband connection, and over time this thread can get bogged down with slow loading huge images, so let's create thumbnails, and link those to your off site panorama.  ICE even creates the thumbnail for you, and there are MANY free image hosts.

• First, create your panorama using ICE.
• Check the box under 'Export' labeled 'Create JPEG Thumbnail'
• Set the size of the thumbnail to '200', the default 100 is too small IMHO
• Export your panorama and thumbnail
• Insert your thumbnail into your message using the green tree icon here in the compose message window
• Click the inserted thumbnail to select it, then click the chain icon here in the compose window, not the broken chain icon.
• Fill in the blanks, and you are set!
  

Stitched with ICE, stereographic projection with hugin:

 stitched with ICE, linear panorama:

I have a number of panoramas i would like to share

hopefully i can figure out how to do this....

thanks

conrad

A hand held two row panorama of the prism building in toronto

28 mm lens 

 My first panorama created with ICE. The file is in .wdp format and is about 8 Meg or so in size.

I also created a HDView page of the same image but for the life of me I, or my brother, can not get this to display properly.

Edit... The following link is no longer valid...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/HDView/Monhegan_Island_Maine.html

I tried your hdview page and am seeing all white.  Is that the same thing that you are seeing?  Does it look the same when the page and image tiles are on your local machine?  What format (tiff, jpg, png,...) were the source images for this panorama? 

mattu:

I tried your hdview page and am seeing all white.  Is that the same thing that you are seeing?  Does it look the same when the page and image tiles are on your local machine?  What format (tiff, jpg, png,...) were the source images for this panorama? 

The originals were jpeg images from a Canon Powershot G5. Both my brother, in Florida, and I, here in OK, see the same thing, ie. an all white image.

 That was created using ICE on my wife's XP Pro desktop machine.

I am in the process of creating HDView and HDView SL pages now using Photoshop and the HDView plug-in of the same scene.

Did you see an all white scene before uploading the page to your web server?  That is, right after ICE was done creating this, ICE automatically opened your browser with the result.  Was that all white? 

mattu:

Did you see an all white scene before uploading the page to your web server?  That is, right after ICE was done creating this, ICE automatically opened your browser with the result.  Was that all white? 

No... The resulting image looked normal. I did notice that when ICE was compositing the images the system ran and ran and ran and ran...and ran...etc. I had to hit cancel to get the composite panorama to display. Subsequent operations, ie. creating the thumbnail and the .wdp image finished normally. Perhaps that is a clue for the MSFT developers or me...

I did create two pages using Photoshop and the HDView plugin. For me the SL page displays all black. The HDView page displays normally.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/HDView/Monhegan_Island_Maine.htm

 EDIT note...the following is no longer available...

http//theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/HDViewSL/Monhegan_Island_Maine.htm

Later...

     Al

Just to verify.  The web page looks fine when viewed locally, but after you upload it to your server and view it over the web, only then do you see an all white page?  Is this correct?  This seems like an issue with the web server or the upload process?  We have seen a lot of issues with web servers not handling the wdp mime type correctly. 

mattu:

Just to verify.  The web page looks fine when viewed locally, but after you upload it to your server and view it over the web, only then do you see an all white page?  Is this correct?  This seems like an issue with the web server or the upload process?  We have seen a lot of issues with web servers not handling the wdp mime type correctly. 

That's correct.

In one case a Windows Home Server [WHS] I have running here at home and in the second case the web server host for my small networking how-to pages, ie. the theillustratednetwork.mvps.org server. This latter server is completely out of my control.

In the case of the WHS I simply upload to a shared folder from my wife's XP Pro desktop. When I download the files remotely, via aSSL link, or even locally the white symptom appears. Uploads to the illustratednetwork site are via FTP or via copy-n-paste with Frontpage to the appropriate folder.

I have no idea why the server has all white tiles on it.  They are getting corrupted somewhere in the upload or serving process.

The black silverlight page is because you didn't upload the HDViewSL.xap file to the server.

You may have copied them to your server.  But they are probably not being served.   

I should be able to see via http: http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/HDViewSL/HDViewSL.xap returns error 404 - file not found

It looks like the white tile issue is fixed.  When I tried to view your tiles on Sunday this link: ttp://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/HDView/Monhegan_Island_Maine/l_0/c_0/tile_0.wdp  would reutrn a blank tile.  It now seems to be working.  Did something change?

I am guessing that the web site at http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ is not configured with the MIME type for Silverlight ".xap" files, and therefore it refuses to serve them.  If you manage this web server, you should be able to add a mapping from the ".xap" file extension to the correct MIME type: "application/x-silverlight-app".  If you don't manage the web server, perhaps you can pass this information on to somebody who can make the change.

We should add some information about this MIME type to the release notes for ICE, since there are many web servers that aren't configured to serve ".xap" files yet.

ericsto:

I am guessing that the web site at http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ is not configured with the MIME type for Silverlight ".xap" files, and therefore it refuses to serve them.  If you manage this web server, you should be able to add a mapping from the ".xap" file extension to the correct MIME type: "application/x-silverlight-app".  If you don't manage the web server, perhaps you can pass this information on to somebody who can make the change.

We should add some information about this MIME type to the release notes for ICE, since there are many web servers that aren't configured to serve ".xap" files yet.

Thanks Eric...

I'll pass that on to the server admins. Whether or not they make the change is another issue...