[Rockhounds] A new approach to displaying mineral photos!

[Bob Loeffler]

Wow!!!!!  Amazing!!!!  That is the best plugin EVER!  I'm a computer guy
(for the last 25 years) and I've never seen a piece of software this cool.
Oh, and nice specimens, Tom.  :-)

One other feature I noticed is that you can zoom in and out from the wall if
you have a "scroll wheel" on your mouse.  Scroll it forward and you "move
closer" to the wall; scroll it back and you "move further away" from the
wall.

And it looks like they support all of the major web browers.  Very cool!
Thanks for telling us about it, Tom!

Bob


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[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Tom Corson
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:28 PM
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Subject: [Rockhounds] A new approach to displaying mineral photos!

Hi,

Having spent so many years in high tech, I don't impress easily when it
comes to new software "gizmos", but this is simply a "must see" and I wanted
to share it with all of you.

I discovered this browser plug-in called PicLens which allows me to design a
web page which can display a collection of images as a virtual 3D image wall
(you can literally "walk" down it!).

So I put together a page containing a photo of each of the specimens I have
online using this technology. 

Here is the link:
http://infodyn.dyndns.org:8880/store/pl_images.html

Now, to see the 3d image wall, you need to download and install the PicLens
plug-in, otherwise all you will see is a traditional type slideshow and not
the really cool stuff.

Here are the instructions:

1) Load the above web page.
2) Click on the link which says "get the PicLens plugin" and install it
(it's simple and easy).
3) Restart your browser and reload the above page.
4) Click on the link which says "Start Slide Show".
5) You will now see the entire collection as a draggable 3d image wall. Each
specimen can be zoomed in by clicking it with the mouse. You can drag with
the mouse to "walk" down the wall.

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I hope you enjoy
it!

Cheers,
TC
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Thomas W. Corson	 	 OBG International	 
corson at infodyn.com	 2435 E Mayview Drive	 
520-225-0244	 	 Green Valley, AZ 85614	
http://www.obgrocks.com	 
World Class Minerals For World Class Collectors	
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