2021-08-20, 08:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 2021-08-20, 09:07 PM by MojaveGeek.)
I'm glad you enjoyed those panos! I haven't made a new one in years and I was thinking about that literally just earlier this week. I'm retired now, but when I used to work at MIT, I had 5 high resolution monitors side by side. It covered a whole wall on my physical desktop and I had about 13K pixels across. Ideally it would have been a half circle, but I did not have the space. I could sit in the middle and just immerse myself. I've not had the ability to view them at this rez since I retired and it's de-motivated me from doing new panos, though I have plenty of material (I stitch them by software, not in camera, as the in-camera tools don't support anywhere near that resolution).
The brassy box on the shelf above the monitors is one of the earliest computer digital audio systems around - it dates back to 1978. I didn't build the hardware, but wrote all the software. There were 8 output channels of analog, and I could play 4 digital audio files simultaneously through any weighting and mixing of the 8 outputs, but I had to work pretty hard to make that code fast enough back in the day
I had to write my own file system to support efficient layout of the continuous media files on the physical disk (which was, gasp, 10 Mb)
Anyway, it is great that you were inspired by the panos, Dazed!
![[Image: five_monitors.jpg]](https://www.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/five_monitors.jpg)
The brassy box on the shelf above the monitors is one of the earliest computer digital audio systems around - it dates back to 1978. I didn't build the hardware, but wrote all the software. There were 8 output channels of analog, and I could play 4 digital audio files simultaneously through any weighting and mixing of the 8 outputs, but I had to work pretty hard to make that code fast enough back in the day
I had to write my own file system to support efficient layout of the continuous media files on the physical disk (which was, gasp, 10 Mb)Anyway, it is great that you were inspired by the panos, Dazed!