Assignment 9
Panoramas
A Tour of the NEIU
Campus
The panoramic images on this page were created using the
program MGI Photovista 2.0. Photographs for each of the three panoramas
were copied from the P drive ("quad," "quad2," and "library") and imported into
Photovista, where they were stitched into the three revolving views seen here.
In order to make manual adjustments within the program, the
stitch option "automatic alignment" was turned off. I used the options
"full 360-degree panorama," "disable warping," and "crop non-image area."
The program uses a Java applet, with a class file that must be pasted into
your html page.
The images below include views of the quad and the library. Seen from
top to bottom, they will take you in a southwesterly direction from the
Student Union building to the Ronald Williams Library. The images move
very rapidly, but
to slow them down you can click on each image, move the arrow to either
the left or right, and hold down the mouse button.
In this view of the campus you can see the Beehive, the B-Building, and
the Student Union Building. If you're leaving Cafe Descartes or
the Registration office and heading toward the Library, this might be
the path you take. Now go to the next panorama for a different perspective.
Walking southward from the previous area, you can now see the Fine
Arts Building, the Science Building, and the Library. Here, you can see
recent changes to the campus, with new landscaping, benches, and pathways.
Keep walking toward the Library, and in the next view, you'll go inside.
Now you're inside the Library. You'll see the front doors, the
Reference Desk, the Circulation Desk, and the elevators. You'll also see
the computers where we use the library catalog to do our research.
Students at NEIU spend a lot of time in this building during the
school year!
Click
here to see a hyperlinked panorama of these images, created with MGI
Virtual Tour Maker.
Sources:
MGI Photovista 2.0
Photos by Erick Howenstine
Nina Roberts
Spring 2005