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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marin County Civic Center

Marin County Civic Center

Marin County Civic Center—click thumbnail image to view panorama

While on our way to the Pacific Pinball Expo in San Rafael, California, we stopped at the Marin County Civic Center to explore Frank Lloyd Wright‘s final masterpiece. This may be my favorite of all of his works; it’s interesting to see his architectural sensibilities juxtaposed alongside late 1950s/early 1960s stylistic memes, all mixed together with the beautiful landscape of the Bay Area.

posted by Josh Korwin at 11:59 am  

Monday, July 6, 2009

NYU Gallatin LEED website


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When we at PictureBubbles° start a new project, creating the full 360° by 180° panoramic photographs is only half the battle (or half the fun, really); where our panos really shine are in the context of a complete virtual tour of an environment. These tours allow us to leverage interactive web technology, most notably Adobe Flash, as we create photographic experiences that tell a story.

Over the past year we had the opportunity to develop such an experience for New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. The school’s home base was recently renovated and received LEED Gold Certification for the environmentally-friendly practices used in the planning and construction of the new floors. After photographing the spaces and stitching everything together, we created a website and tour interface that really ties the room together (quoth Lebowski). A visitor need only click on a “hotspot” to bring up a sticky-note with more information about the feature underneath.

Flash is a technology that can easily be misused or abused, but its richness now permits just about everything to be done through a web browser. Thanks to Flash-based panorama / virtual tour software, we’re able to create completely custom interactive hotspots that make a panorama more than just a picture. With text, images, animation, sound, and video, the possibilities are pretty much limitless. But for the sake of accessibility and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), we also make sure to provide much of the same content in an HTML-based context.

posted by Josh Korwin at 4:12 pm  

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