The Next World Wide Panorama Event
As our planet whirls through space it once again approaches a position halfway between the mid-summer and mid-winter Solstices, that place and time we call the Equinox. Day and night will be of equal length at all latitudes. For the northern hemisphere summer officially ends and autumn begins, south of the equator goes from winter to spring.
To celebrate this auspicious point in the space-time continuum we invite you to participate in the twentieth edition of the World Wide Panorama.
The theme for this event is "COLOR". An essay on color by Caroling Geary and Yuval Levy has been posted on the WWP site.
Photography must be done during the period from Thursday September 18 through Tuesday September 23 (your local time). The prep server will be open for you to upload panoramas and build pages from the first day of shooting through Friday, October 3. The site will be updated to include the new event on Sunday October 5.
For full information on rules, procedures, and the essay on "Color" refer to the WWP site Next Event page: http://tinyurl.com/2d5ovj
The WWP Team:
Don Bain
Landis Bennett
Markus Altendorff
Re: The Next World Wide Panorama Event
Sorry to be posting the same message on all the VR-related lists and forums - we just want to get the word out.
But we don't want to annoy anyone with redundant messages, or to clutter up lists such as this with chatter about the upcoming/ongoing event. So I will post only the most important announcements and reminders here.
If you wish to be more fully informed about the World Wide Panorama and the next event "Color" we urge you to join the WWP mailing list and web forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp/
It is a fairly quiet list most of the time, but gets pretty lively during the quarterly events. It is also a way to get involved in discussions about the present and future of the WWP.
The WWP site has been growing steadily with contributions by pros and newbies alike - 920 participants have produced 4567 VR panoramas for the nineteen events so far. It provides an open, non-competitive and non-commercial showcase for this special combination of art and technology.
The section of the web site "Meet the People" (http://tinyurl.com/6p4k43) is an invaluable guide to who's who in the VR world. If you have never participated in the WWP you may want to do so just to get yourself listed here. Both the personal pages and individual pano pages afford an opportunity to link to your personal web site and examples of your work.
If you are not able to shoot for "Color" this month you can still participate. The final event of the season will be "Best of 2008", to which you can submit any single panorama you have created this year (open for uploads December 18-29).
Thanks for listening,
Don