Panorama

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Panorama

• A R-evolving Medium

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What is Panorama?

• The enormous peep show
• pan all
• horama view
• Overcoming limitations in a painting

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Brief History of Panorama

• Egyptian, Roman wall paintings
• Bayeux Tapestry
• Robert Barker, 1787 patent
• 19th century rotundas

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Factors leading to Panorama

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

• Scientific illustrations
• Perspective
• Curved ceilings
• Tromp loeil
• Architecture

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The Panorama Rotunda

• Diagram

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Creating a Panorama

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

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Visual Techniques

• Multiperspective wrapping sketches of a single
  perspective to a cylinder
• Multiple centers of interest
• Size does matter!

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Death of the panorama

• Not an actual extinction, but an evolution
• Birth of the amas
• Popular modern form web-based panoramic movies,
  like QTVR

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Parallels Between QTVR Panorama Rotundas

• 360º view
• Image stitching
• Bring surroundings to life

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The Parallax Problem

• The Axis and the Nodal Points
• How to see Parallax
• Example

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Problems with QTVR

• Slow vs. Fast spinning
• Warping towards the edges
• The upside down V distortion
• Dizziness

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The Leaning Tower of Hoover

• Play Movie

The Way Lag should be

• Play Movie

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Shop til you

• Distortion of nearby objects
• The Dizziness problem, revisited
• Play Movie

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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!