Dear all,

I am happy to announce that I have 16 interactive 3D images of Lichfield Cathedral's St Chad Gospels available online, with plans to have the complete manuscript up by summer's end: http://lichfield.as.uky.edu . This is a beta version but very stable. Chrome offers the best 3D support for browsers, but Safari works well as does Opera. Foxfire and Internet Explorer should have the necessary support in their next releases. 

Features include the ability to measure any aspect of a page, offering seven different measurements (by color) and each measurement able to comprise multiple points (for a point, line or polygon); allowing viewers to generate a URL for an exact view that they have manipulated a 3D rendering into for later return or to send to a colleague or friend (or for citation); annotate any feature on a page and save it to the server, loading it and its view later (I have an annotation for page 5, the Chi-Rho); and my favorite viewing feature—by holding down the alt key, left clicking the mouse and dragging it, the cursor location becomes the point around which the page rotates (potentially making any point on a page its own epicenter). 

There is a key at the top of the viewer for the 3D images giving the various functions and movements, including full-screen mode, panning the camera, zooming in and out, and dragging the image (by clicking and holding down the mousewheel—we'll have a keystroke for this movement soon so that all of the functionality will work on the touchpad of a laptop. 

If anyone has any comments or suggestions, please contact me: bill.endres@uky.edu .

Best,

Bill