QTVR Links
| Learning Resources & Information | |
|---|---|
| Apple | QTVR Home Page, good place to start |
| Apple Tutorials | Apple's QuickTime Pro Tutorials |
| Big Ben | PanoTools Tutorials, including lens calibration |
| Blue Mountains VR | Gallery of images from the Blue Mountains in Australia |
| Cambridge In Color | Tutorial on HDR photography in Photoshop CS2 |
| candanchú | Nice Skinned QT Player tour of a ski resort |
| CinePaint | Open source HDR image editor (Win/Mac/*nix) |
| ColorSync Profiles in QTVR | Hans Nyberg's page on trying to figure out if CubicConverter embeds a color profile to images in QTVR |
| Concepts In Motion | Good information on QTVR, also the "Burning Man" |
| DarClean | Article on how to test and remove noise from long exposures with digital cameras |
| Developer Agreement | The software license agreement for distributing QuickTime or using the QuickTime logo and web buttons |
| Digital Blending | A Photoshop tutorial on combining multiple exposures |
| Digital Tallinn | The Estonian capital virtual guide, very nice use of Flash and QTVR |
| Digital Urban | Digital Urban blog, including a review of the two most popular stitchers |
| Dr. Lex' QTVR Page | QTVR resources and links |
| eBay 2004 Showhouse | A showcase house designed by 8 different interior designers, captured to QTVR |
| 11th Moon | A Cinema 4D tutorial on stitching QTVR panoramas |
| ePaperPress | PanoTools Tutorials, and updated 16-bit PanoTools Photoshop Plug-Ins (Win) |
| Erik Krause | Great tutorials on using PanoTools, including lens correction and high dynamic range imaging |
| From Paris | Features panoramas of Paris, France and a great technical section with video tutorials and resources |
| FullScreenPanos | A gallery of full screen panoramas |
| Fullscreen QTVR | A joint project of panoramas.dk and VRMag |
| Gigapixel Image | Max Lyon's project to stitch an image over 1,000 Megapixels |
| The Goat's Ears Of The Emperor Trojan | A different approach to VR perception through illustrated panoramas, which bring 3D effect into the imaginary worlds. Hand painted by award winning illustrator Jelena Obradovic, interactive authoring by Multimediaworx. |
| IE 6 EMBED Issue | Apple's support page for the new QuickTime ActiveX <OBJECT> |
| iNeTours | Tour San Francisco and the Northern California Wine country with panoramas, pictures, history and lots more |
| Interactive Panoramas Book | Website for a book on digital panoramic photography by Corinna Jacobs |
| IVRPA | International VR Photography Association, currently maintains the only active forum on LiveStage Pro |
| IQTVRA Links | Another page of links, though not as many as this page ;-) also see the main site |
| John Houghton | Using PanoTools to straighten horizons and correct vertical lines |
| Learning Alliance | Provide QTVR Training, also has some on-line tutorials |
| Lingo Scripts | Free pre-built Lingo code for working with QTVR files in Director |
| Little QT Page | The Little QuickTime Page, weekly news pertaining to all things QT (no longer updated since July 2003, listed here for historical reasons) |
| Mail List Archive | Where to sign up for Apple's QTVR mail list |
| Manchester Cathedral | A great virtual tour of the Manchester Cathedral, using Flash & QTVR |
| Michel Thoby | Locate the nodal point of a fisheye lens |
| Mouth to Source | A global project to capture panoramic images of bodies of water |
| NetGate | QTVR Tour CD-ROMS of Europe |
| Niagara Falls Tour | A thorough virtual tour of downtown Niagara Falls |
| Nodename | A paper discussing using Flash player to present immersive panoramas |
| Northern Light | Modifications to a Manfrotto 3416 leveling base and a custom bracket |
| Nyfeler-Mueller | A tutorial on creating a mirror ball looking trip cap with circular text |
| The Other Savannah | A different view of Savannah GA by Kirt Witte |
| Omnidirectional Vision | All things related to spherical imaging hardware |
| OpenPanorama Consortium | Attempting to define an open XML file format for panorama content |
| Outline Grid Tutorial | Outline Graphic Designs tutorial on finding a camera's nodal point using a grid |
| Pano Guide | James Rigg's site has good tutorials on VR & reviews on software |
| Panoramas.dk | Features a new full screen panorama each week |
| Panorama Tutorials by Dr. Karl Harrison | Wonderful collection of tutorials |
| Panoramic Images | Stock photo service, specializing in panoramic images |
| Panoramic VR Weblog | Peter Murphy's blog on VR |
| Panoramic Walkthrough | A paper from the University of Indiana discussing a panoramic-based walkthrough system using real photos |
| PanoTools FAQ | FAQ for PanoTools |
| PanoTools for PanoFreaks | Forum for PanoTools |
| PanoTools.info | Home of the original PanoTools wiki |
| PanoTools Next Generation | After some controversy, there has been a split of the "official" PanoTools Yahoo! list |
| Paul Debevec | Profession from USC who worked on HDR Shop, and the popular 1997 Campanile short movie demonstrating photo-realistic texture maps applied to basic 3D shapes (think Canoma) |
| PDF Panorama | Helmut Dersch's paper on using Adobe's Acrobat Reader to play back panoramas and object movies |
| Philo | All sorts of tutorials for panoramic photography, and great links for PanoTools |
| Prague 360 | Very well done virtual tour of Prague |
| Psychology of VR Panoramas | Article and links on the how the brain deals with Virtual Reality |
| PTViewer Tag | Details on each and every parameter for using the PTViewer Java applet |
| QSXE component | The Totally Hip "LiveStage QScript Extension Essentials" QuickTime component. I personally think it'd have gotten WAY MORE downloads if it were called the QSEX component :-) |
| QT Bridge | All about software and tools for QuickTime, including their own Pleinpot to prepare fullscreen VR files |
| QTVR + Flash | Tutorial on how to assemble a multi-node QTVR tour with embedded Flash navigation |
| QTVR demo on G4/TechTV | Watch the video from the great QTVR presentation by David Davenport on the popular cable channel |
| QuickTime HTML Documentation | The complete list of supported attributes for embedding QuickTime in a web page |
| QuickTime Playback Compatibility Chart | A comprehensive list of codec support to QuickTime starting with version 2.5 |
| São Bento Palace | A great virtual tour of the Republic Assembly in Portugal |
| See Beale | A virtual tour of historic Beale Street, in Memphis Tennessee |
| Singapore 360 | A work in progress virtual tour of Singapore |
| Spherecam | Dan Slater's custom made dual fisheye camera system |
| Stage Door | The new community for LiveStage Pro users (Seems to be done since late 2006) |
| Stereoscopy | Discussion on creating 3D images with computers |
| Steve Gulie | Support site for the excellent book "QuickTime for the Web" |
| Stitcher & HDR Images | Samples of various HDR tests with Stitcher |
| Stitcher 5.5 & PTGui 5.8 comparison paper | A technical paper comparison of the two most popular stitchers by Michel Thoby |
| Sydney Opera House | The often talked about "best of class" virtual tour |
| 360 Houston | Virtual tours of the Houston, Texas area |
| Turk | Ken Turkowski, one of the original programmers of QTVR, creator of DeFish app for converting Fisheye images, & unofficial update for QTVRAS to allow for stitching images with a VFOV of more than 130° |
| Tutorials | Good information on QTVR & Director 7.0 |
| Univ of Texas | Tutorials for educators, very good information on QTVR |
| Using PanoTools | Kathy Wheeler's page of using PanoTools with tutorials |
| Virtual Tour of The United Nations CD-ROM | 150 panoramas, over 2 hours of video, images of artwork, interviews and much more on this multimedia CD-ROM (Win/Mac) |
| Jim Watters | Correcting Chromatic Aberration with PanoTools Radial Shift |
| Virtual Guidebooks | Don Bain's Virtual Guidebooks, featuring over 5000 panoramas of western North America |
| Virtual Parks | QTVR images of national parks including California & Utah |
| VR Mag | Photographic VR online magazine (recently re-launched) |
| VR Photography | Scott Highton's companion site to his upcoming book "Virtual Reality Photography" |
| VR.refocus.de | Another fairly new site for VR, includes great galleries and tutorials |
| VRlog | Blog for all things related to photography, outdoors, and Immersive Imaging |
| VR Seattle | A comlete virtual tour of well over 1,000 panoramas of the Seattle, Washington region |
| VrView | A gallery of artistic QTVR works |
| World in Motion VR | 360 panoramic images from around the world, from Spin2See |
| World Panorama Stock | Stock Photography panoramas |
| World War II | Panoramas of historic world war II landmarks |
| World Wide Panorama | An ongoing series of international events, now featuring over 3000 VR panoramas by more then 700 photographers in 80 countries |
| Wrinkle In Time | Simultaneous photo shoot all across the globe |
| Zermatt360 | Excellent gallery of panoramic images from the peaks of the Matterhorn |
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| Development Tools | |
| 0-360 | Single shot cylindrical panorama hardware / software (Win) |
| 360 Degrees of Freedom | Panorama Stitcher and Object Maker, with java playback, formerly Addessosoft (Win) |
| 4pi.org | Good articles on PanoTools, including installing and using with Linux |
| Adobe | Director multimedia development software, also home of Shockwave and Flash (formerly Macromedia) |
| Agnos | Pano heads and accessories, including the new MrotatorH head for elevated / aerial panos |
| Anything 3D | Panoramic and Object VR software, including Pano Viewer Professional Java applet |
| AutoPano | Autopano Pro v1.3.0 stitching software (Win/Mac) |
| AutoStitch | Matthew Brown's auto stitching software |
| BeHere | single shot lens attachment captures entire 360° in one shot |
| Blank Rebel Productions | Useful apps, including QT HTML, which helps to generate the HTML code for placing QT content in a web page |
| BLS Designs | Make Accupan panorama and object hardware solution |
| BoBracket | Bo Bracket panohead solution made specifically for various camera+lens systems |
| Bogen | Pano heads & tripods |
| Camera Turrent | Motorized pano heads |
| Canon | Cameras & accessories |
| Click Here Design | CubicConverter and CubicConnector software (Mac) |
| CubicVR 360° with Flashplayer9 | Flash based method of presenting cubic panoramas |
| Deep Forest Multimedia | Maker of VRHotWires and Nodemedia, also VRScript |
| Dersch | Helmut Dersch, maker of useful QTVR tools & software including PanoTools (Win/Mac/Unix) |
| Dersch (mirror) | Mirror site of PanoTools, since Helmut has taken his site down (Win/Mac/Unix) |
| Dersch (mirror) | Yet another mirror of PanoTools (Win/Mac/Unix) |
| Design Wizardary | Amazing JavaScript viewer with psuedo perspective correction |
| DevalVR | 3D browser plug-in for viewing panoramic images and 3D topographical maps (Win) |
| DevelopWare | Makers of the QTVR 2.0 Director Xtra |
| Digital Radiance | Makers of 3D QuickScene Java Applet for panoramas |
| DoubleTake | Image stitching software (Mac) |
| Duckware | Poor Man's VR Java Applet |
| EasyPano | PanoWeaver stitcher (Win) |
| eLine Technologies | VideoClix Interactive Hotspot Software |
| Enblend | Image Blending with Multiresolution Splines (Mac / Win / Unix) |
| EnterNetica | Makers of VolumePhoto stitching software and web browser plug-in (Win) |
| EyeSee360 | PhotoWarp 2.5 conversion software for single-shot 360 images (Win/Mac) |
| fieldofview | SPi-V fieldOfView Fisheye Viewer; requires Shockwave browser plug-in (Win/Mac) |
| FirstPerson | FirstPerson Immersive Video (Win) |
| Gary Fong | Lightsphere-II internal dome system diffuser, helpful with lighting 360° |
| GLPanoView | GLPanoView is an alternative freeware player for cubic QTVR and equirectangular panoramic images using OpenGL (Win) |
| Gregwired Digital | The affordable Panosaurus spherical panohead |
| HDR Shop | All about HDR images |
| hugin | An open source GUI for Pano Tools (Win/Unix) |
| Illisis | 360 video capture hardware and i.Vista stitching software |
| ImageAlign | Lens distortion correction Photoshop plug-in by Grasshopper Software (Win/Mac) |
| Imatronics | Panorama Express (Win) |
| Immersive Media | Make Roundabout Immersive Video |
| ImmerVision | Java Viewer, PanoConverter and ScreenSaver software |
| iMove Inc | Smooth Move spherical stitching software (formerly Infinite Pictures) (Win) |
| iSeeMedia | PhotoVista and Reality Studio (Win/Mac) |
| Jasper | Pano heads |
| Kaidan | Object rigs & turntables, and pano heads |
| Kekus | Maker's of PTMac stitcher, Calico Panorama (an automatic stitcher), LensFix CI (a core image based image correction program) (Mac) |
| KingPanon | A new pano head on the market, looks promising |
| Kube | A DirectX OpenGL cubic viewer (Win) |
| MakeADN | ADN Software's Java based VR scene player |
| Manfrotto: Panoramic Photography | A special micro site all about using Manfrotto/Bogen hardware to produce panoramic photography |
| Mapwing | From Redbug Technologies, virtual tour creation software / web hosting (Win/Mac) |
| Motion Parallax | Object VR creation software (Win) |
| NeatImage | Photoshop plug-in from ABSoft great for reducing noise in digital images (Win) |
| NEC | Press release of 360 panoramic camera |
| Nikon | Cameras & accessories |
| Nodal Ninja | Precise shperical panoramic heads and accessories |
| NovaFlex | Panorama-VR-System head and accessories |
| Omega Concept | Makers of QuickMedia 5 and MistralMovie Quicktime multimedia authoring software (Win/Mac) |
| On2 | A high quality codec for QuickTime |
| Panavue | Visual Stitcher software (Win) |
| Pangea Software | An alternative format web browser plug-in, and a preview plug-in for Photoshop (Win/Mac) |
| Pano Warp | Free Image Stitcher (Win) |
| Pano12.dll Mod | Modified pano12.dll that adds several bug fixes (Win) |
| PanoCube | Converts equirectagular images to QTVR cubics (Win) |
| PanoLink | HotSpot creations for cubics (Win) |
| PanoMan | Generate 360° panoramas from cellphone cameras |
| PanoPoints | An alternate method of setting control points for PanoTools |
| Panorama BackPacker | Desktop Panorama Viewer, and QTVR Recorder software (Win/Mac) |
| PanoRob | Pano12 library collection |
| Panorado | Makers of Image viewer with support for panoramic images, and Java applet viewer |
| Panoscan | Panoscan system, creates ultra hi-res digital single-shot 360 panos. Also see the VR format comparison pages. |
| Pano2QTVR | Convert and create cylindrical and cubic QTVR from equirectangular images, including hotspots, auto-rotation (Win) |
| PanoTools for Linux | A port of PanoTools for Linux (Unix) |
| PanoTools Library | Collection of PanoTools library files for Mac |
| Peace River Studios | Pano heads & object rigs |
| Phase One | Object creation hardware solution |
| PhotoFixLens | Photoshop plug-in to correct all kinds of lens distortion (Win/Mac) |
| Photogenics HDR | HDR Image editing software (Win) |
| Photomatix | Exposure blending software to extend the dynamic range of photographs |
| PhotoVista Java Applet | Free applet for java based panoramas and objects |
| Pictosphere | Ford Oxaal's software for producing spherical images using fisheye lenses (Win) |
| Pinnacle VR | A universal pano head that works with any camera / lens combination |
| Property Panorama | Features Insta-Stitch software, as well as offering stitching service (Win) |
| PTAssembler | PanoTools Assistant for creating script files (Win) |
| PTGui | Windows GUI front-end for Panotools (Win) |
| PTViewer 2.7L2 | Modified version of PTViewer, numerous updates to the original |
| QTVR 2 Mov | An application that converts a cubic QTVR movie into a ssequence of video stills (Win/Mac) |
| QTVR in Director | Macromedia's TechNotes on QTVR in Director |
| QTVRAS | Apple's QuickTimeVR Authoring Studio software (Mac) |
| Reality Pixels | New web site for Ken Turkowski (former Apple QTVR Engineer) |
| Really Right Stuff | Cylindrical and spherical pano heads |
| Realviz | Stitcher, "high resolution" stitching software for high end 3D graphic designers (Mac OS X/ Win NT / Unix) |
| Reflecmedia | Advanced chroma key solution, useful for Object VR |
| Remote Reality | Single shot cylindrical panorama lenses, and security camera equipment |
| Seitze | the Round Shot camera, and VR Drive |
| Skypaint | Software for generating skies (Win) |
| Sorenson | Excellent codec for QuickTime, also Broadcaster software for QuickTime live streaming |
| Spherical Panorama Inc | Makers of various stitching and virtual tour creation software (Win) |
| SpinControl:VR | A custom QTVR controller |
| SpinImage DV | Object VR software (Win/Mac) |
| Spinner-Scripts | Professional JavaScripts available for plug-in free QTVR |
| Stitch Fisheye | Virtual Tour creation software and an image stitcher that supports fisheye lens (Win) |
| Streambox | A high quality codec for QuickTime |
| 360Precision | Makers of panoramic tripod heads made for specific camera / lens combinations |
| SurroundPhoto | Sunpak's SurroundPhoto single shot solution, also see their VRI object creation system |
| Totally Hip | Make the QuickTime media tool LiveStage Pro 4 (Win/Mac) |
| Ulead | Cool 360 stitching software (Win) |
| Vernal 20 | fish4cubeUB fisheye image stitching software (Mac) |
| VR Toolbox | VR Worx panorama and object software (Win/Mac) |
| VR Tools | Makers of deliVRator, a great utility for editing and optimizing QTVR files |
| WebSphere | IBM's authoring software for creating java based, no plug-in required panos & objects (Win/Java) |
| XML to Reference Movie | Application to create a reference movie from XML data (Win/Mac) |
| Zommify | A high quality codec for QuickTime |
| ZyGo Digital | A high quality codec for QuickTime |
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| National Developers | |
| Add360 | Rick Drew, based in the Chicagoland area |
| Amenta, Joe | Joe Amenta, Photographer & QTVR in Chicago |
| Axis Images | California's Janie Fitzgerald, one of the most respected QTVR content creators |
| Beautiful View | James Arthur, Only Chicago participant in the Wrinkle |
| Blanpied, Eric | Former Apple employee on the QTVR team |
| BoPhoto | Bo Lorentzen, former lead photographer for eVox |
| Bohonus | Bradford Bohonus, VR Photography in Seattle WA |
| CircleVision | Larry Ruggeri, From Maryland. |
| Content Arts | QTVR photography in New York |
| Downing, Greg | From California, exploring hybrid 3D model skinning with panoramic photography |
| Enrich Media | QTVR provider from Portland Oregon |
| EPOP | Eric Poppleton, based in Los Angeles California |
| Evermore | Andrew Crawford, In Phoenix Arizona |
| Evox | Probably the largest production studio in the world, headquarters in California |
| Exophrenic | Based in Los Angeles California |
| Fisher, RC | Los Angeles area photographer Robert Fisher |
| Flipside Studios | John Greenleigh, who creates the QTVR Object movies for Apple and other major clients |
| Galvinized | Photographer Jim Galvin |
| Goes Photo | Bill Goes, Photographer & Digital Production in Chicago |
| Gyroscope | California's Tim Petros |
| Haan House | Robert Haan, from Idaho |
| Robert Harshman | Robert Harshman, with offices in Chicago, IL and Austin, TX |
| Highton, Scott | Photographer Scott Highton, from California, one of the first QTVR Photographers |
| Imagemaker 360 | Florida based, focus on real estate virtual tours |
| Inertia | David Goldwasser from Tennessee, also see his sandbox section of the site for discussions on using a Bogen Magic Arm as a panohead |
| Island Virtual Tours | Rich Shipley, based in Hawaii |
| Jux 2 Position | Excellent Flash based panoramas, near Denver Colorado. |
| Lyons, Max | Max Lyons gallery, and discussion forum |
| Matré | Lar Matré, based in the Atlanta Georgia region |
| Neustep | virtual tours, based in Chicago, Il |
| Northern Light | New York Photographer Mark Fink |
| PanoShow | PanoShow |
| Paradox Photography | Curt Cechowicz, also an instructor at the College of DuPage |
| Photographic VR | New Orleans Louisiana's Ray Broussard |
| PineCam | Colorado's Pine Weathercam and VR Studio |
| Pixelagogo | Cory Shubert's site, also has some tutorials |
| Ponyboy | Don't forget about me! |
| Quantum VR | Michael Quan, from Boston MA |
| Ryan, Rich | Photographer Rich Ryan from Minneapolis Minnesota |
| See It 360 | Georgia based Southern Digital Solutions LLC, produces panoramic photography for real estate |
| Sella, David | Boston area photographer |
| Sir Round | Southern California's Ken Stuart |
| SiteTraffic | VR tours, graphic and web design, from Houston TX |
| Spherical Panoramas | Excellent new site of Carel Struycken with panoramas from the Los Angeles area. |
| Spin2See | Great use of Wired QuickTime features with fully interactive QTVR. From Chicago. |
| Studio 360 | Seattle based, primary focus is QTVR |
| Thomas Media | George H Thomas |
| 360VR Studio | Jook Leung, based in New Jersey |
| Virtual Properties | Madison Wisconsin's Jim Zellmer |
| Virtual Visitor | Photographer Christopher Mann |
| Virtually Anywhere | Austin Texas photographer Carrington Weems |
| VRistic | Neil Barham, from Colorado |
| VRtistry | Chicago area's David Davenport |
| Wholeo Online | Artist Caroling Geary, based in Florida |
| Wolford, Jerry | North Carolina QTVR designer |
| World VR | David Palermo of Northern California |
| Zone 360 | Based in California |
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| International Developers | |
| 360 Revolution | Based in the UK, full screen virtual tours using QuickTime VR and Java |
| AL Visual Dimensions | Canada's Alex Makienko |
| Apple Virtual Tours | Virtual Tour from Whistler BC, Canada |
| AzimutVR | Located in Canada |
| Brown | France's Guillaume Brown, with stereo QTVR panos |
| Cubik 3D | Canadian company specializing in cubic QTVR panoramas and digital photography |
| Cubicone | Interactive Imaging from Germany |
| Ebeling Data | Creators of Digital Tallinn city guide |
| Expose | Expose |
| Firefly Digital Design | Virtual Tours and Flash designers from Makati City, Philippines |
| Flash360 | Fullscreen tours from the UK |
| Gliksman | France's Denis Gliksman |
| Harlands | David Connolly, from Australia |
| iLevelGolf | From Scotland, specifically targeting golf courses |
| Illustrata | Sweden's Jochum Berg |
| Imersiva | From Brazil |
| Le-Geo | French blog with galleries and tutorials |
| Madeena 360 | Waleed Nassar based in Cairo, Egypt |
| Masters, Bob | From Barcelona |
| Mastery Multimedia | From Australia |
| Mindwave Media | Out of the UK, be sure to see their tour of the Manchester Cathedral Visitor Center |
| Murphy, Peter | Australia's Peter Murphy, with excellent articles on VR |
| Nemeng | Australia's Andrew Nemeth |
| Optical FX | European virtual tour providers |
| Ottawa Panoramas | QTVR movies and photos of Ottawa Canada |
| Outline | Outline Graphic Designers from Belgium |
| Pano4You | Sven Hafner, based in Singapore |
| PanoGraph | PanoGraph, by Tamas D. Varga, based in the Republic of Hungary |
| Panoptic Pictures | Based in Prague, Czech Republic |
| Panoptics | From England, full service production and also TourGuide hosting service |
| Panorama Telfs | Telfs, Austria |
| Panoramas Réunion | Romuald Vareuse's images of an island |
| Panorob | Germany developer, offers panorama and object VR |
| PhotoPanorama | Dean Weaver, out of Lancashire in the UK |
| PhotoReal | Australia's Scott Bennett |
| Steizeit Mediendesign | From Germany, clients include Mercedes Benz |
| Tantramar Interactive | QTVR, Flash, video and web design from New Brunswick. Canada |
| 360 House | Ontario Canada |
| 360 Spin | Based in the UK, now offering full-screen QTVR |
| Ultimedia | Virtual tours and web design from Tasmania, Australia |
| Virtual Denmark | Panoramic images from Denmark |
| Virtual Sweden | Jonas Carlson presents his QTVR, based in Sweden |
| Virtually Vancouver | Danilo Jurisich, from Canada |
| Visual 360 | Nick Bailey, QTVR photographer based in Italy |
| VR Place | Fiore Cappone in Italy |
| WorldWide VR | Huge list of International Developers |
| Z360 | Douglas Cape, from England |
| Zeitraum | Germany |
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