Damn you Klaus,
You got me all excited with the fading slider demo, and then I look at the XML and I discover that you abused 6 giant image hotspots as cubefaces for the secondary panorama.
Don't even waste your time on making such a hack a demo, please. I need real panorama layers. I really really need them. Apparently the performance is there, just no mechanism to actually pull it off right.
There's a million applications. Fake Exposure fading (ala ADR), Day/Night blending, Before/After, all sorts of stuff. Here is one example that I was just working on, where I'm trying to compare the West Rongbuk Glacier in the Himalaya between 1921 and 2010. As Gigapixel, serving Zoomify tiles.
http://www.hdrlabs.com/gallery/gigapa…Rongbuk_Glacier
Click the Clock icon and you can switch. But it's not smooth, because these damn tiles don't stay in memory. I have to switch XMLs and it keeps reloading. The best I can do is to have the transition wait until the new tiles are loaded, and then do a smooth fade. But that takes forever, up to the point where it's confusing for the user.
Please, please, put real panorama layers on top of your list. The scenes are a good start. Now let me show multiple XMLs in sync, with Alpha and blending modes. Some great experiments could be done when I can make them spin at lower rate, resulting in a Parallax scrolling effect.
Christian Bloch
Wenn dir Deutsch lieber ist, können wir wir das auch gerne in Deutsch ausdiskutieren, ich steh in jedem Fall zur Verfügung wenn du Fragen hast .... Blochi@EdenFX.com