High-res HTML5 panos for iPad and PC/Mac Safari
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:55 pm
Hi all,
I've made some HTML5-versions of recent panos to see what kind of image quality I could squeeze out of my newly-bought iPad.
One thing that puzzles me is that exactly the same pano looks considerably worse on the iPad than on a regular computer screen.
However, I see no mention of this anywhere, so I am wondering if I'm the only one who sees this difference.
A reason could be that for the iPad pano quality was deliberately traded for speed, its processor isn't much of a powerhouse after all.
Or is it something Mobile Safari does automatically to reduce memory consumption?
If so, can we switch that mechanism off?
Here are links to some examples:
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-Kamenicky01 (3.2MB)
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-Plymouth (5.6MB)
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-HaytorRocks (4.2MB)
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-Lizardpoint-01 (3.6MB)
Cube faces are 1930x1930, I made them using PTGui and Photoshop, not Pano2VR, so I had full control over their quality.
Again, file size doesn't interest me in this case, this test is about image quality.
Cheers!
Erik
I've made some HTML5-versions of recent panos to see what kind of image quality I could squeeze out of my newly-bought iPad.
One thing that puzzles me is that exactly the same pano looks considerably worse on the iPad than on a regular computer screen.
However, I see no mention of this anywhere, so I am wondering if I'm the only one who sees this difference.
A reason could be that for the iPad pano quality was deliberately traded for speed, its processor isn't much of a powerhouse after all.
Or is it something Mobile Safari does automatically to reduce memory consumption?
If so, can we switch that mechanism off?
Here are links to some examples:
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-Kamenicky01 (3.2MB)
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-Plymouth (5.6MB)
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-HaytorRocks (4.2MB)
http://tinyurl.com/iPad-Lizardpoint-01 (3.6MB)
Cube faces are 1930x1930, I made them using PTGui and Photoshop, not Pano2VR, so I had full control over their quality.
Again, file size doesn't interest me in this case, this test is about image quality.
Cheers!
Erik