Flash Panorama of Baker Center

Posted by: Zach Wise    Tags:      Posted date:  February 14, 2007  |  8 Comments

This is an experiment using flash to produce a 360 panorama. The panorama is of Baker Center’s Grand Opening during the MASS Ensemble performance. The performance featured a 150-foot-long harp that was stretched from the center’s bottom floor to the fifth floor.

Click and drag inside the panorama to look around | Open Large Version

About the author
Zach Wise is an award-winning former Senior Multimedia Producer for The New York Times and Associate Professor at Northwestern University.




  • http://bobsacha.com bob sacha

    cool. I think it looks really nice. Can’t get the sound to play though.

  • http://digitalartwork.net Zach Wise

    If you click on the speaker and drag the audio up, you can hear it. Also if you launch the large verison, you will hear it.

  • http://www.samgirton.com Sam Girton

    Nice. Loaded here with audio no problem. I can’t see any stitching problems worth talking about.

  • http://www.nelsonhsu.com Nelson Hsu

    Great stuff. Did you create the Flash pano viewer or did you download/buy one?

  • http://digitalartwork.net Zach Wise

    I’m using flashpanorama which is built in as3. The ones I’ve built before, I could not get the “lens distortion” to work properly.

  • http://www.nclendenin.com Nathan Clendenin

    I have been looking for a good tutorial on doing virtual (cubic) panos in flash. As well as the recommended equipment. Any ideas?

  • http://digitalartwork.net Zach Wise

    I am currently using the “Nodal Ninja” and the sigma 8mm lens for my panos. I stitch with PTMac from Kekus. I don’t know of any tutorials on doing them in flash, and this was my first try at doing it with flash. A good tutorial for making a 360 can be found here:
    http://www.fromparis.com/video/make_a_quicktime_vr_in_10_mnts_english.mov

  • Thomas

    Another program to convert panos to flash is on http://www.pano2QTVR.com – also http://www.immervision.com has a flash player.