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Panorama: A R-Evolving Medium

Panorama is a Greek word meaning "all view" or "full view". It refers to an unbroken, panoramic view of a wide area. The document discusses the history of panoramas from ancient wall paintings to modern virtual reality panoramic movies. It traces the evolution of panoramas from large-scale 19th century panorama paintings viewed in rotunda buildings to modern digital panoramic photography and virtual reality. The document also examines technical challenges in creating panoramas such as parallax errors and viewer dizziness, and how these issues are addressed in virtual panoramas.

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Panorama: A R-Evolving Medium

Panorama is a Greek word meaning "all view" or "full view". It refers to an unbroken, panoramic view of a wide area. The document discusses the history of panoramas from ancient wall paintings to modern virtual reality panoramic movies. It traces the evolution of panoramas from large-scale 19th century panorama paintings viewed in rotunda buildings to modern digital panoramic photography and virtual reality. The document also examines technical challenges in creating panoramas such as parallax errors and viewer dizziness, and how these issues are addressed in virtual panoramas.

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Panorama

A R-evolving Medium

What is Panorama?

The enormous peep show


pan: all
horama: view
Overcoming limitations in a painting

Brief History of Panorama

Egyptian, Roman wall paintings


Bayeux Tapestry
Robert Barker, 1787 patent
19th century rotundas

Factors leading to Panorama

Horizon
See-fever
See-sickness
Hot-air balloons
Hope
Dungeon destruction

Scientific illustrations
Perspective
Curved ceilings
Tromp loeil
Architecture

The Panorama Rotunda

Diagram:

Creating a Panorama

Preliminary Sketching
Placing Canvas
Transferring the Sketch
Painting
Exhibition
Rotation & New Panorama

Visual Techniques

Multiperspective: wrapping sketches of a single


perspective to a cylinder

Multiple centers of interest


Size does matter!

Death of the panorama

Not an actual extinction, but an evolution


Birth of the amas
Popular modern form: web-based
panoramic movies, like QTVR

Parallels Between QTVR &


Panorama Rotundas

360 view
Image stitching
Bring surroundings to life

The Parallax Problem

The Axis and the Nodal Points


How to see Parallax
Example:

Problems with QTVR

Slow vs. Fast spinning


Warping towards the edges
The upside down V distortion
Dizziness

The Leaning Tower of Hoover

Play Movie

The Way Lag should be

Play Movie

Shop til you

Distortion of nearby objects


The Dizziness problem, revisited
Play Movie

A R-evolving Form

The future of panorama

Story-telling
Motion
Virtual Reality meets Panorama
The all-view

Panorama, in one form or another, is here


to stay!

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