Weird Wednesday - Virtual Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
You thought the music to "It's a Small World" would drive you crazy? Try the careening refrains of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, a blacklight-ridden motorized kiddie ride at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. At least, you could try it until 1998, when the Mouse saw fit to toss the toad and replace him with a cute, cuddly, one-crayon-short-of-a-sharpener bear named Pooh. Enter obsessive compulsive ...
Developer Bill Meikle wanted to go
beyond static QTVR panoramas, so he figured out how
to make 360-degree panoramic videos with some cheap hardware and Mac software. He details the entire process at his
web sites and includes lots of sample videos, and the results are pretty stunning. ...





