Panorama
This feature and this documentation page are still under development.
Enabling Panaramic images
To enable panoramic photos, tick Table IV-A24.2 and a selectionbox will appear on the photo admin page at every photo that may be a panorama, i.e. the width is at least 2 times the height.
Types of Panoramic images
The following types of Panoramic images is supported:
- 360° spherical images
- Non 360° flat panoramic images
360° spheric images
For this feature the javascript library THREE.js has been embedded into wppa.
Example 1: A computer generated 3D structure rendered into a 360° spherical image. By Alejandro Giraldez Sanchez.
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Image by Alejandro Giraldez Sanchez
Example 2: A sample from the THREE.js open source software example application by Emanuele Feronato.
THREE-sample-05
Non 360° flat panoramic images
Example 3: A sample provided by M. Marell, Muziekhuis Lyana
IMG_1216
Lightbox
Click on a thumbnail to open the panorama in lightbox.
Restrictions
The following restrictions apply to the Panoramic images feature:
- Because this feature uses the HTML tag <canvas> it works only on browsers that support HTML-5. This is a permanent restriction.
- As you can see by the shape of the curser when viewing a panorama on a desktop or laptop computer, you can drag the image into any direction; on the flat panorama you can also drag the black rectangle on the preview image. There is no way to drag on a mobile device; this would interfere with the default gesture events. It is still under investigation if there is a way around this restriction.
- This works for the display of single photo only (yet); one can use any of the three 'plain' single photo shortcodes, e.g.:
[wppa type="photo" photo="{photo_id}"][/wppa]
[wppa type="mphoto" photo="{photo_id}"][/wppa]
[wppa type="xphoto" photo="{photo_id}"][/wppa]
Lightbox also supports the display of panoramas since version 6.9.09.