February 2011
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HTML5 Panorama Viewer
Recently, while working with panoramic images for my research, I decided to implement a panorama viewer purely in HTML5. Most panorama viewers online require plugins like Flash or Java, but since HTML5 has a shiny new canvas element, I thought it would be a worthwhile experiment.
The viewer assumes a cylindrical projection. Essentially, by slicing up the original image, we can independently...