A system, including apparatuses, software and methods, is disclosed for
capturing and delivering images as to which various interactive functions
are enabled for a user. The images introduced to the system can come from
any one of a variety of sources, including from a digital camera. A
graphical user interface permits a user to customize a set of interactive
functions to be enabled for a given set of images. The interactively
enabled images can be delivered via a webpage to a user, for example, via
email, the Internet or downloaded from a disk or from disk drive on a
computer on which the webpage is stored. Each image is delivered to a
user in its own layer of software, which permits complex sets of images
of relatively high resolution to be delivered to users without any
appreciable delay associated with the delivery or the need for the user
to have additional software, such as a plug-in to receive images and
enable interactive functions with respect to the images. Whenever an
interactive function is being carried out, a viewer perceives only one
image layer at a given time, but the currently viewable image layer can
be changed rapidly, so that the user can perceive the illusion of motion,
including virtual rotation of an object depicted in a set of images.