Dustin Mierau

Forgot to share the G4 Cube QTVR object frames.

iPod and the eMac. 🙃

I would like to see the rig they would have created to make (and possibly automate) these. I suspect rotating platform under the scene, camera on a vertical bent track? Something like that.

And for posterity, here's that MacUser Eddy Award for QuickTime VR in '94. heh

Just for fun, I added a way to export all of the frames from a QuickTime VR Object file to a single image. 😅

What's cool about the hotspot images is that hotspots could be more than just simple shapes but large complex organic shapes that could map exactly to part of a scene.

I wonder if you could open this in Photos on an Apple Vision Pro? That is, would it wrap the image around you 360º like it does with iPhone made panos? 🤔

Here is the full Bridge pano and separate hotspot image exported to disk. Hotspots in many cases were a separate image track in the QuickTime file. I've colorized the different hotspots, each pointing to another pano in the file (with its own hotspot image). Pretty neat.

Having a bit of fun with this QuickTime VR viewer project thing this evening. Still figuring out how hotspots work, but hey this Star Trek Enterprise bridge QTVR file works now. :)

There are 21 different panos in this one file!

And just for fun, here's a working QTVR file that came on the QuickTime VR Showcase CD-ROM: 1 Infinite Loop in the early 90s. I feel like this was taken on film and then scanned with an early 90s scanner? I don't think the QuickTake could have produced this detail? (ignore the pano seam bug heh)

Some example hotspot images. They were the size of the stitched pano. The dark grey as black (0), and the different rects would be nearly black (>0). The grey value mapped directly to the node it would take you to when clicked. Fun.

Hotspots became a data structure in QTVR 2.0 however.

QuickTime VR 1.0 hotspots are now correctly projected onto the cylindrical surface and visit the correct node. So this file works great!

QTVR 1.0 hotspots were stored as images where literal pixel values mapped to the node they navigate to when clicked. So color r: 1, g: 1, b: 1 linked to node 1.

NICE :D

Note: I now need to find this Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual CD-ROM 😅

Here's the snippet about the award from the MacUser March 1995 issue p77. (p.44 of archived issue).

God bless @archive.org 😄

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This QuickTime VR object file of a 1994 MacUser Eddy Award came with Apple's QTVR Showcase CD-ROM. It was awarded to Apple's QuickTime VR team "Breakthrough Technology of the Year."

Someone at Apple took *so* many photos of it.
360 photos to be exact. How appropriate. 😉

Did you know that there exists a project today that lets you play Bungie's classic Myth II on your latest Mac? Works great in Tahoe. On Apple Silicon. I love this.

projectmagma.net

Hmm I forgot to mention that a while back I added selection masking to MacPaint. That is, when there is a selection, it will act as a mask on the document so any drawing you do will only affect the inside of the selection. It feels like a natural extension of what was already in place imho.

Just FYI I won't be releasing MacPaint on TestFlight or the App Store for fairly obvious reasons I guess. Though Apple no longer holds a trademark on "MacPaint", they do forbid apps with "Mac" in their name. So, y'know.

I'm excited to set aside some time to make a page to distribute this on anyway.

Added some helpful keyboard commands to the MacPaint pattern editor: rotate, flip horizontally, flip vertically, invert, and move. 🙂

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You have a point though now that I look at it again. I did remove default help menu items so there are technically no system menu items in the list except the one at top which *doesn’t* have an icon. 😂

Also I’m not sure it’s in vogue. I don’t know a single person who likes the icons in the menu bar. I doubt Apple will revert this soon, but here’s hoping. 🤞

Yeah, I get it. Sadly, I’m following latest menu bar guidelines. Apple puts icons on their menu items automatically. I get weird indentation where some menu text won’t line up horizontally with system menu items.

Am I bending guidelines here and there? Yes, but only where it doesn’t feel busted. :(

Figured out a way to desaturate the close/minimize/maximize buttons on MacPaint document windows. Their journey to the dark side is now complete! 😈

Working on the Help menu for MacPaint. Anything I'm missing? Should change?

Ordered. Definitely don’t need it but, ordered. 😆

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This project is neat.

I’m… I’m not moving the menu bar? ;)

The built-in macOS window grouped tabs look okay I guess. Though that giant drop shadows, especially on the "new tab" button, are a disaster with or without the white background. Man alive.