Open Source Flash Panorama Viewer based on Papervision 3D

Papervision 3D is an open source 3D engine for the Flash platform; it's "written and maintained by a small core team, and contributed to by its ever-growing community".

Papervision is extremely cool -- if not for the faint of heart or those who are GUI-bound and unfamiliar with ActionScript and other flavors of things that ultimately require you to ditch your liberal arts major and poke the math pencil in your eye -- and hugely useful for those of us delivering 360° panoramas in an increasingly QTVR-less world.

The PV3D engine is also hugely extensible, and that's where the meat of this posting is... What Zephyr Renner has done in great part regarding the base of the FlashPanos.com wrapper, and what I have done to a lesser extent regarding adding user-friendly visual interface, is to extend the PV3D engine. EyeCandy is good and all, but let's make something useful...

We're providing the source itself of our engine extension to the community at large which might want to roll their own panoramas and deliver them via Flash. It is our hope that others will be interested and interested enough to pick up the torch (or co-carry it) and aid in making a PV3D extension set specifically for delivering photographic 360° VR panoramas to the public.

Read more about it, and download the source and examples at flashpanos.com. Let us know what you think, and feel free to contribute!

Cheers!