Q & A
What's CubeWorld?
It's an iphone native application that's able to show spherical panoramas. Rendering is based on a cubic map and it's done using OpenGL.
What's a "spherical panorama"?
It's an image that can give you the feeling to be where the picture has been shot, because you can turn your eyes around 360°.
Where can I find other panoramas?
Well, you can try www.cubeworld.org (name's not by chance the same of this app) where you'll find a lot of other info about this project. Another userful link iswww.geoffreymorelle.com
I don't want to do it, but I want the same to try the app. What can I do?
(A bit less)Simply download the zip www.marcogiorgini.com/iPhone/CubeWorld.zip and put CubeWorld.app in your Applications folder - then change CubeWorld file permissions (inside CubeWorld.app folder) to 0755. Then put CubeWorld folder under /private/root/var/Media and be sure that this folder has got reading permissions.
I got mines! can I see them on my iPhone with this app?
Yes, sure. As long as they're based on a cube (one-image spherical projection will be probably added soon - with software rendering). Specs will be available soon - but it's just the matter to create a subfolder in /private/var/root/Media/CubeWorld with an xml file and your 6 jpgs (one for cube face) - following an easy rule for naming and extensions.
Folders name doesn't matter - but inside that folder you must put:
- an xml file with a
- a png file (48x48) with the SAME name (but with png as extension of course) (i.e. marcogiorgini.png)
- 6 jpg files named
Each texture can be at max 1024x1024 (iPhone openGL limit for textures)
xml file should be like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Name</key>
<string>Brugges</string>
<key>Description</key>
<string>Brugges 360 image, by Geoffrey Morelle.</string>
<key>Author</key>
<string>Geoffrey Morelle</string>
<key>Url</key>
<string>http://www.geoffreymorelle.com</string>
<key>Zoom</key>
<string>2.5</string>
<key>Version</key>
<string>0.0.22</string>
</dict>
</plist>
In future (near future) versions more keys will be used.
Is CubeWorld free?
Yes. CubeWorld is a FREE iphone application. If you like it, and if you want to, you can donate some spare money to Marco Giorgini for it (using the above Donation button) but it's your call. If you want to thank the author a postcard, or a book or whatever will be appreciated too :-).
Who's the author of this program?
Code and design are by Marco Giorgini, but everything is based on an idea by Geoffrey Morelle, who's also the author of all the panoramas inside the default package.
Who's Marco Giorgini, anyway?
Marco Giorgini is an Italian computer programmer, that lives in Modena. He works in the semantic/linguistic field (R&D for one of the major Italian software houses in that field). iPhone and games are ones of his hobbies.
