These panoramas were produced by Jim Mackay and Paul Simmons of Virtual Horizons. They are best viewed in thousands of colours or better.
They were created using the new Quicktime VR Authoring Studio and late beta versions of QT3 but should be fine with QT 2.5. Upgrading to Quicktime 3 is highly recommended as QTVR performance has been greatly enhanced amongst many other improvements. The final version should be available from Apple by the time you read this.
Several of these movies are multinode. Usual practice is to click and hold the reveal hotspot button on the controller bar. A little known trick is to double click the button. This will leave the hotspots visible allowing you to pan around the nodes and locate any less obvious hotspots. There is a slight performance hit using this method but a single click to the button will hide the hotspots again. Performance can be improved by using the present movie function (command m) to display the movies against a black background. A popup dialog will appear with several options; we recommend using "current" for best results, but feel free to experiment. We hope that you enjoy the results.
