The next in my series of Myst Projects.
This one is very theoretical, because I have no idea how it would work, except manually, but it would be very useful, and cool.
You have probably heard of Photosynth before, Microsoft’s tool for stitching together photos to make a virtual re-creation of the place or object in the photos. It lets you swivel around an object, or virtuallyy explore commonly-photographed landmarks. It’s all very cool.
Now here’s the Myst connection. If there was some kind of tool like this, but for Riven, it could take Riven screenshots and stitch them together based on the objects in the game, creating easy-to-use 360° views.
“What good would that be?” you ask. Well, consider the submarine on Jungle Island. If you walk up to the place where you first find it resting, you can see these 3 views (and others in between these) on the way there:
That’s all well and good, but what if you want to see the back of the submarine? Of course it’s possible to see it:
But how do you get there? Here’s how:
So I trust you understand now why this would be awesome. Of course, I don’t plan on doing this project myself, because I have absolutely no idea how it would work. I just had the idea, and figured I should tell people. If you have any idea of how it would work, let me know and maybe we can try to get it working. For now, file it under “hypothetical”.