Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:11:02 -0700 
From: Adam Sah  
Subject: Fwd: oh... my... god... empeg is out of control... (vtours on empegcar) 



I finally got the pieces together to hack the empegcar: a freshly-minted
   redhat box and the empeg dev tools...

first, I got cross-compiling to work... (zlib example program)

   empeg:/tmp# ./example 
   uncompress(): hello, hello!
   gzread(): hello, hello!
   gzgets() after gzseek: hello!
   inflate(): hello, hello!
   large_inflate(): OK
   after inflateSync(): hello, hello!
   inflate with dictionary: hello, hello!

then, my first real program's output (homage to the music gods,
   code shamelessly ripped off of the png image displayer:
   http://www.empeg.mars.org/devel/demo.php3)

   empeg:/tmp# ./pngtest 
   Usage: ./pngtest  [n]
   empeg:/tmp# ./pngtest napster2.png 30



   (image created by visiting http://www.napster.com/, 
   taking a screen dump, cropping in mspaint and saving as
   an 8-bit grayscale PNG file)

and, of course, I'm required to post a virtual tour...



yes, it's real tour, though I cropped to the top half...

   http://tours.ipix.com/AXSK4SJK.htm

now, of course, we need a spinning viewer...

...ten minutes later...



and of course, it's not a viewer if you can't change directions...
 - left/right changes direction
 - (either) top/bottom ends the tour

and I'm told that the committee won't approve projects that don't
   add end-user features, so I also hooked it up to the remote
   control ("*" to end the tour, otherwise the obvious mappings).

still to come:
 - select/download tours over the net (ie. over ethernet)
 - zoom
 - audio voiceovers (of course)

adam
Chief (mad) Scientist, Internet Pictures Corp.
mk2 owner #7863
cc: rob voisey @ empegcar

ps. but this is nothing-- check out tetris:
       http://www.hulkster.net/empeg/pics/tetris.jpg