page_title: Boštjan Burger
hierarchical_section_title: Boštjan Burger
caption_attribution_description: English: Terraces of precipitated calcium carbonate inside Škocjan Caves, Slovenia (taken with permission of park authorities) Slovenščina: Slika predstavlja ponvice nad Šumečo jamo v Škocjanskih jamah. Foto: Boštjan Burger, september 2006 (slikano z dovoljenjem Uprave Regijskega parka Škojanske jame).
context_page_description: Boštjan Burger is a Slovenian informatician, geographer, a panoramic and VR panoramic photographer and a speleologist. He was founder of the Burger Landmarks website and had retired as computer programmer in the 1990s to become a geographic researcher on the hydrology of waterfalls. He used VR panoramas as a tool in the research of landscapes. He was greatly influenced by geographer Don Bain for documenting the landscape with VR panoramas and Hans Nyberg for his use of QuickTime VR fullscreen panoramas.
  His first 360° pictures – so called: Cycloramas, were taken with BW negative film in 1982.
  In 1989 he has created a computer program with an algorithm for assembling different types of crosswords, Word squares from 6x6 to 10x10 and no blank filled crosswords – Word rectangles 6x6. His crosswords were published in renovated Slovenian enigmatic magazines in a period from 1989 to 1992.
  Virtual museum Ljubljana: Open-Air Museum — founded by Boštjan Burger in 1993 and online 1996. Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia was presented as a huge museum where streets were the expositions of the architecture and building interiors were museum rooms.
context_section_description: Boštjan Burger (born 1966) is a Slovenian informatician, geographer, a panoramic and VR panoramic photographer and a speleologist. He was founder of the Burger Landmarks website and had retired as computer programmer in the 1990s to become a geographic researcher on the hydrology of waterfalls. He used VR panoramas as a tool in the research of landscapes. He was greatly influenced by geographer Don Bain for documenting the landscape with VR panoramas and Hans Nyberg for his use of QuickTime VR fullscreen panoramas.
  His first 360° pictures – so called: Cycloramas, were taken with BW negative film in 1982.
  In 1989 he has created a computer program with an algorithm for assembling different types of crosswords, Word squares from 6x6 to 10x10 and no blank filled crosswords – Word rectangles 6x6. His crosswords were published in renovated Slovenian enigmatic magazines (Kih, Ugankarski domenek, …) in a period from 1989 to 1992.
  Virtual museum Ljubljana: Open-Air Museum — founded by Boštjan Burger in 1993 and online 1996. Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia was presented as a huge museum where streets were the expositions of the architecture and building interiors were museum rooms. The method of the presentation were interactive maps and interactive historical relations between locations of Ljubljana documented with photos and later with Virtual Reality panoramas. In 1999 Ljubljana municipality co-founded a one-year development of the Burger's Virtual museum Ljubljana.
  In June 1996 Boštjan Burger became involved in the creation of 'Slovenia Land of Waterfalls', which was launched on the Internet after 15 years of researching the hydrology of the waterfalls of Slovenia. Over 300 separate waterfalls were recorded with complete data and visual information on each waterfall - the majority of which were presented and documented in VR. And so the project went on to create other VR intensive initiatives.
  In 1997 the Virtual Reality Panorama project: Landmarks was started to create a striking visual presentation using Virtual Reality Panoramas. The Virtual Tour was very effective in showcasing locations like caves, deep gorges and mountain peaks, as well as towns, museums, castles, and national parks and ethnology. More than 11,000 VR Panoramas have been created for the project so far.
  The CD-ROM 'Waterfalls of Triglav National Park' was published 1998, and covered the entire area of the National Park with permanent waterfalls. The multimedia guide consisted of descriptions of waterfalls, accesses, GPS location, maps, interactive photos, QTVR's and 61 min. of VHS quality movies of waterfalls on a single CD. Many of the CD's were donated to Slovenian schools and incorporated into the Geography curriculum.
  In 1998–1999 the first virtual tour like street view with virtual reality panoramas with 400  virtual reality panoramas as part of Virtual museum Ljubljana was realised in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
  The 'Virtual guide to Slovenian Museums' began in March 2000, and the funding has continued into 2004. Many Slovenian cultural locations are represented, which are in turn connected to a virtual guide of each museum. Currently 106 museum exhibitions are presented within this project.
  Year 2000: The project of the Krško Nuclear power plant steam generators replacement took place and Burger has realized the documentation and visualization of the interior of the Nuclear power plant including a cooling water pools system which removes heat from the reactor core. The visualization was used as a learning tool to display processes in the nuclear plant.
  In September 2000, the newly initiated 'Karst Project' began to organize and photograph the cave systems of Postojna Cave and Škocjan Caves (Slovenia), so that people worldwide could admire this beauty without intruding in droves on the delicate ecosystem.
  European schoolnet: 'Use of Internet and new technologies in schools'; from 4–11 May 2001 in Stockholm. Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Slovenia has nomitnated Burger's photo virtual reality project "Images from Slovenia" to this European s
caption: Burger's subterranean photography of Škocjan Caves, 2000
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