Automation: Implementation of the droplet with CGI or something else

    Hi Community,

    I'm still looking for a solution to automate the creation of the pano's.

    Now I'm thinking about a solution to create a web page with integrated panorama creator. I would like to upload the equirectangular image with a webform, and the droplet will create the pano initiated by CGI.

    Has someone experiance in such a solution?

    Thanks for a short hit how to start.

    Best Regards

    Christoph

    I know people want this, and it's boggling my mind how to create such feature. Im not boggled about the technique, because there are tons of options (php, cgi + droplets, c# compilers etc) but rather how this would work userwise.

    So lets say you shoot a photo, and stich it. Tada you got a TIFF of several 100mb's And now you gonna upload it to someone elses server (which would take FOREVER + if you lose connection, you can start all over again). Even if you compress it to a JPG of 10mb, a tour has got alot of photos.

    Next is the server handeling, First you need alot of Diskspace. Then Imagine several people create a tour all at once, you can't run this on some crappy pc on the attic. You'll need proffesional hosting I guess, which can get expensive.

    I would just let people upload a lowquality version of a panorama (max 500-1000kmb) Do you magic without the droplet, and then return your tour xml to the user.

    What could work is creating an application that works offline (webpage + apache server + cgi scripts in 1 exe file). And that uses a login system that connects to the internet. Then you get the best of both worlds.

    Hi Zephyr,

    Thanks for your reply, I will think about this!
    I'm not yet sure, if I would like to have this functionality just for me to automate the panorama creation, or if I would like to open this for a small community or for the public. At the moment, my webspace has 100GB... enough for a first test...

    Tours were not in my first focus, just pano's in jpeg with around 10-20MB for each file or not much more...

    I did some test's to execute the droplet on the FreeBSD Server, it's not yet working... but I will try to re-configure the server for this.

    But where is the benefit of the offline system? If I create such a solution, the best way is to have it online anyway, or not?

    Thanks

    Christoph

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