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[elakdawalla]

Hi folks, I'm hoping I can find a volunteer with some CSS and Javascript skills to help me with a small project for planetary.org that will enable us to serve a useful 3D image library from the Planetary Society website. I don't think this should be too difficult or too big a project but it's a little beyond my skill. Since this would primarily be a service provided for the UMSF community I figured it was OK to seek help here

Here are the details...

I need somebody to develop some CSS and, if necessary, Javascript code in order that I can do some tricky display of 3D images. I would like to embed an image in a blog entry and then have a clickable interface (via links or buttons or some other method) to have it swap in images -- within the body of the blog entry -- using different 3D viewing modes as requested by the user; clicking on the image itself will pop up either a lightbox or a separate full-screen browser window that will display the full-size image on a dark, non-distracting background.

I am building a "3D image" content type for our CMS with fields that will contain links to different versions of the same image (anaglyph, flicker gif, left/right pairs as separate files for display as either cross-eyed or parallel-eyed stereo), in a range of sizes appropriate for embedding within the existing display templates on our website. I'd embed just one of these in the blog entry -- probably the anaglyph, as that provides a quick visual cue that "there is a 3D image here". But I know most people don't have 3D glasses and I'd like to give them a way to switch the image to one that they can see in 3D.

If I can make this work well, I'd be building a nice searchable library of 3D images available in multiple viewing modes, drawing heavily on material posted here.

While I do have someone at TPS who's capable of doing this work, he has higher priorities. I can and will do the work to build the content type/image database but my CSS skills are pretty poor.

If you think you can help me out, send me an email at blog@planetary.org.