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15-NOV-2003

My computer setup

This is included here to give you an idea why I'm such a panoramic enthusiast. My computer setup doubles as a panoramic painting/photo placeholder to decorate my room when I'm not using the computer.

Three 21" Viewsonic G220fb CRT monitors. 1280x1024 resolution per monitor for a total of near 4000 pixels and four feet horizontaly. The box is an AMD 2800 with 2.5GB Corsair XMS RAM, an nVidia geForce4 ti4600, a Seagate 200GB 8MB cache hard drive, and two 40GB 8MB cache Western Digital hard drives RAIDed together.

Sony DSC-F717
1/40s f/2.0 at 9.7mm iso100. Used Photoshop to brighten the lower half of the image a few stops. hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time15-Nov-2003 12:09:39
MakeSony
ModelCybershot
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length9.7 mm
Exposure Time1/40 sec
Aperturef/2
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Modecenter weighted (2)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programmanual (1)
Focus Distance

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Guest 25-May-2006 11:44
Now that's impressive!
Eric13-Apr-2006 20:14
The wallpaper is from here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-111/html/s111e5035.html Several comments further down I linked to it but it looks like PBase corrupted the links and are no longer present. If you visit the website above, there are many, many more amazing photographs, all high-resolution.
Guest 10-Apr-2006 09:38
I love the panoramic photo you are using for your wallpaper, what is it? I'm a fan of Microsoft Flight Simulator and I bet it be stunning on those three screens.
Benoît Jolivet19-May-2005 03:12
It is what I call a play-ground !!
Eric20-Oct-2004 16:48
I edited C Power's message to remove the inline graphic and change it to a link.

Thank you for the kind words, C Power. I sent you a mail.

From: C Power ( christopherpower2000@hotmial.com )

Hi again! Thanks for the reply, i tried the tile setting and it worked. I think that others really would benefit from you making the program you are talking about, although not many people have more than one monitor. But i would find it helpful now that i know how to get it to work. I've been working with photoshop for years now and am getting into generating images from scratch. Im working on one now to use for dual monitor, but just for you, if you want, i'll make it for 3. If you want an example of my latest work, check out this link:



Thanks again and ill be back soon for your reply.
Eric14-Oct-2004 19:52
Definately have to span one image on all 3! That's the point of this whole gallery. Here's how I do it. I have a Photoshop file that represents all three monitors in physical space including the space between monitors. I drop a high-res panorama onto it, and then I run an action that slices out the parts covering the monitor areas and puts them side-by-side on another file that represents the virtual desktop space (pixel-for-pixel). This way images look continuous. It saves a BMP. If you don't mind images not looking continuous, start here: In Desktop Properties, I set the background and tell it to Tile (not Center or Stretch). The image then spans over the other screens.

Lately, I've been toying with the idea of writing a VB program that makes this much, much easier and more available for the common masses. If you're interested let me know to modivate me; send me a message.
C Power 12-Oct-2004 03:01
wow, i have dual monitor. 1 AGP vid card, and one PCI. Works great but i can't get 1 background picture to span across both. Just the same picture on both. How did you get 3 working? - Nice work!
Guest 17-Sep-2004 22:26
Now that's hott.
Guest 09-Aug-2004 05:01
what i would do for a machine like that...
Mary Bowles28-Jan-2004 18:52
Good grief ! THREE monitors !