Alex Nino
My bio... hmmm... what to say... I arrived on this crazy world clearly by mistake on March 81, in a far, far forgotten small town but with more problems than a whole nation, close to the pacific ocean in the Colombian territory, it is called Cali. Early I began playing with some gadgets like "telebolito", "intellivision", "Atari", and it was here when I started feeling interested in games and how they are being done but before start programming I've learned to play piano a guitar (I love music, can't live without it).
Then I learned some programming languages such pascal with Borland Delphi, and C++ but I have to confess that it was Macromedia Flash who changed my life once we met each other in 98. I'm working with it since it didn't have support of mp3 audio format files, yes the version 3. And then together (Flash and I) started travelling around america looking for a better job opportunity and professional development than my hometown couldn’t offer us at that moment. Special thanks to: Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia for being a great school. At this moment I'm happily living and paying taxes in London, UK but like a salmon fish one day I will be back.
Hi, in my spare time I been working in a quite interesting project, it is related with publishing properties in the cold-rusty real estate market, slideshow tours, panorama tours and all of them fully interactive, the website is live.
At this moment there are many companies offering 360 panoramic online tours,
some of them using quicktime player, others using java, other using flash and
(papervision, away3d, etc)... Which one is the best? It depends on what you’re
trying to achieve and how quick you want to develop it. I believe that all
these people who are working with panoramas are doing their photography job
really well (which is perhaps the most important part of a panorama tour) but many
of them are forgetting one really important thing “PROTECT THEIR PICTURES ”,
they make a huge effort taking pictures and investing in equipment and probably
others are using their pictures with similar purposes and for free (it happens
quite often in the real estate market), a bit unfair, where are the photographer
rights? During my research process I found in some places duplicated panoramas,
people are stealing pictures and reusing them in different websites, the
question is: What is the most we can do to prevent that? put our name or
company name as part of JPEG content? hmmmm… actually there is something even
more interesting that we can do. Take a look on what we have done for
protecting panoramas pictures on http://www.panoramastreet.com,
there are not watermarks or content that could disturb the user’s view, even
less advertising. Here is the link to the panorama tour demo http://www.panoramastreet.com/live/Demos/DEMO_VV1/
and take a look on one of the pictures how it looks like outside the tour: http://www.panoramastreet.com/live/Demos/DEMO_VV1/pics/lrfront.jpg
It is a quite complex algorithm for reconstructing image data on the fly, if
you’re interested to find out more about how does it work just let me know,
cheers!
