In its most general sense, a panorama is any wide view of a physical space. It has also come to refer to a wide-angle representation of such a view — whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model. Further, the motion-picture term, pan or panning, is derived from "panorama". Look up panorama in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wide Angle (1999) is the debut studio album by British breakbeat trance producers Hybrid, and was re-released in 2000 as a double-CD edition entitled Wider Angle. ... For other uses , see Painting (disambiguation). ... For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ... Photography [fÓ™tÉ‘grÓ™fi:],[foÊŠtÉ‘grÓ™fi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... For other uses, see Video (disambiguation). ... Panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a film or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video or a display device. ... Panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a film or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video or a display device. ...

A panorama from multiple images stitched together using PTgui. This image shows the curved edges of each segment of the panorama which are due to the warping of the image to conform to the cylindrical projection used to present such a wide angle of view. These edges would normally be cropped so the image can be displayed in a more aesthetically pleasing manner.

The word was originally coined by the Irish painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh. Shown on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside, they were exhibited in London in 1792 as "The Panorama". Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 213 pixelsFull resolution (9000 × 2400 pixel, file size: 6. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 213 pixelsFull resolution (9000 × 2400 pixel, file size: 6. ... PTgui is a Windows and Mac OS X panorama photo stitching program developed by New House Internet Services BV. PTgui started as a GUI frontend to Helmut Derschs Panorama Tools. ... Scheveningen village, a small section of the Panorama Mesdag (1880-1881), with fake terrain in the foreground. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

In the mid 19th century, panoramic paintings and models became a very popular way to represent landscapes and historical events. Audiences of Europe in this period were thrilled by the aspect of illusion, immersed in a winding 360 degree panorama and given the impression of standing in a new environment. The Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag created and established the Panorama Mesdag of The Hague, Netherlands, in 1881, a cylindrical painting more than 14 meters high and roughly 40 meters in diameter (120 meters in circumference). In the same year of 1881, the Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne, Switzerland, which exhibits a circular painting, was created by Edouard Castres. The painting measures about 10 meters in height with a circumference of more than 100 meters. Another example would be the Atlanta Cyclorama, depicting the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. It was first displayed in 1887, and is 42 feet high by 358 feet wide. Even larger than these paintings is the Racławice Panorama localed in Wrocław, Poland, which measures 120 x 15 meters. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scheveningen village, a small section of the Panorama Mesdag (1880-1881), with fake terrain in the foreground. ... For other uses, see illusion (disambiguation). ... Seascape may refer to: A photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea. ... -1... Scheveningen village, a small section of the Panorama Mesdag, with fake terrain in the foreground. ... Hague redirects here. ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki ( April 22, 1816 - September 27, 1897) was a French general. ... For other uses, see Lucerne (disambiguation). ... Edouard Castres studied with Barthelemy Menn at the fine arts in Geneva before enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. ... Atlanta Cyclorama building The Atlanta Cyclorama is a cylindrical panoramic painting of the American Civil War Battle of Atlanta. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Combatants United States of America Confederate States of America Commanders William T. Sherman James B. McPherson† John B. Hood Strength Military Division of the Mississippi Army of Tennessee Casualties 3,641 8,499 The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Rotunda housing the RacÅ‚awice Panorama, WrocÅ‚aw, Poland. ... Motto: Miasto spotkaÅ„ (the meeting place) Coordinates: , Country Poland Voivodeship Lower Silesian Powiat city county Gmina WrocÅ‚aw Established 10th century City Rights 1262 Government  - Mayor RafaÅ‚ Dutkiewicz Area  - City 292. ...

Panoramic photography soon came to displace painting as the most common method for creating wide views. Not long after the introduction of the Daguerreotype in 1839, photographers began assembling multiple images of a view into a single wide image. In the late 19th century, panoramic cameras using curved film holders employed clockwork drives to scan a line image in an arc to create an image over almost 180 degrees. Digital photography of the late twentieth century greatly simplified this assembly process, which is now known as image stitching. Such stitched images may even be fashioned into crude virtual reality movies, using one of many technologies such as Apple Computer's QuickTime VR or Java. A rotating line camera such as the Panoscan allows the capture of very high resolution panoramic images and eliminates the need for image stitching. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 25 pixelsFull resolution‎ (30,000 × 926 pixels, file size: 12. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Zhang Zeduan (Traditional: 張擇端; Simplified: 张择端; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chang Tse-tuan) was a Chinese painter. ... Panoramic photography is a style of photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view, but has also come to refer to any photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio (see Panoramic format) While there is no formal definition for the point at which... An 1837 daguerreotype by Daguerre. ... 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple images to produce a panorama or larger image. ... This article is about the simulation technology. ... Apple Inc. ... QuickTime VR (virtual reality) (also known as QTVR) is a type of image file format supported by Apples QuickTime. ... Java 3D is a scene graph based 3D API for the Java platform from Sun Microsystems. ... A rotating line camera, is a digital camera which uses a linear CCD array (called the line) to assemble a digital image during a rotation of the camera, line by line. ... Panoscan MK-3 Camera The Panoscan is a high resolution digital panoramic camera. ... Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple images to produce a panorama or larger image. ...

A panorama of Hong Kong Victoria Harbour

A 360 degree panorama with stereographic projection

On rare occasions, panoramic, 360° movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces — typically at theme parks, world's fairs, and museums. Starting in 1955, Disney has created 360° theaters for its parks and the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, features a theater that is a large cylindrical space with an arrangement of screens whose bottom is several meters above the floor. Panoramic systems that are less than 360° around also exist. For example, Cinerama used a curved screen and IMAX movies are projected on a dome above the spectators. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3495x480, 573 KB) Summary www. ... Victoria Harbour The night view of the Victoria Harbour with the skyscrapers in Central behind, viewed from Tsim Sha Tsui Victoria Harbour (Traditional Chinese: 維多利亞港; Simplified Chinese: 维多利亚港; Cantonese Jyutping: wai4 do1 lei6 aa3 gong2; Mandarin Pinyin: Wéiduōlìyà GÇŽng) is the harbour between the Kowloon Peninsula and the... Stereographic projection of a circle of radius R onto the x axis. ... Ferris wheel Amusement park is the more generic term for a collection of amusement rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ... Worlds Fair is the generic name for various large expositions held since the mid 19th century. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Disney redirects here. ... Circle-Vision 360° is a film technique, refined by The Walt Disney Company, that uses nine cameras for nine huge screens arranged in a circle. ... The Swiss Transport Museum or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, in Lucerne, is a museum exhibiting all forms of transportation (including locomotives, automobiles, ships, and aircraft) as well as communications. ... For other uses, see Lucerne (disambiguation). ... Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146° of arc, and for the corporation which was formed to market it. ... IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia BFI London IMAX by night LHemisferic (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) Valencia, Spain IMAX (short for Image Maximum) is a film format created by Canadas IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater...

One final form of panoramic representation is digital mapping generated from SRTM data. In these diagrams, a computer calculates the panorama from a given point. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is a research effort that obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth to date. ...

See also

• Panoramic Tripod Heads
• Diorama
• Panoramic painting
• Panoramic photography
• Panning (camera)
• Widescreen film/video formats
• Panorama Tools open source panorama creation and viewing software
• Leme panoramic camera

A panoramic tripod head keeps the point of view of the camera stationary by placing it in the axis of rotation. ... A diorama is any of the two display devices mentioned below. ... Scheveningen village, a small section of the Panorama Mesdag (1880-1881), with fake terrain in the foreground. ... Panoramic photography is a style of photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view, but has also come to refer to any photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio (see Panoramic format) While there is no formal definition for the point at which... Panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a film or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video or a display device. ... The Wikipedia main page as viewed with a widescreen monitor. ... Panorama Tools, also known as PanoTools, are a suite of programs and libraries originally written by the German physics and mathematics professor Helmut Dersch. ... The Leme panoramic camera was invented by: Sebastião Carvalho Leme - a photographer living in Marília, São Paulo, Brasil. ...

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Panorama

• Open source GNU GPL program to create arbitrary panoramas; includes links to the first published papers on automated estimation of projective relationship between multiple pictures of the same subject matter.
• Harlem-13-Gigapixels, the biggest panorama in the world
• Fullscreen 360 degree panoramas from the best VR Photographers
• Website of the International Panorama Council IPC