Panorama Viewer for High-Latitude Images and Small Bandwidths
H. Dersch · 2003
A panorama viewer applet for interactive viewing of high-latitude panoramic images has been developed. The basic functionality of ordinary VR-viewers has been implemented together with manual and optional automatic brightness adjustment. Fast and accurate rendering is achieved by using lookup tables for linearization and dynamic range compression. A highly compressed image format suitable for internet applications is used, which typically requires 25% more space than JPEG-compressed low dynamic range images.