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panoramaNarrative scene or landscape painted to conform to a curved or flat background, which surrounds or is unrolled before the viewer. Popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, it was an antecedent of the stereopticon and motion pictures. The true panorama is exhibited on the walls of a large cylinder, and the viewer stands on a platform in the cylinder's centre and turns around to see all points of the horizon. The first panorama, a view of Edinburgh, was executed in 1788 by the Scottish painter Robert Barker (1739–1806). In the mid-19th century the rolled panorama became popular: a painting on canvas was wound between two poles and slowly unrolled behind a frame or revealed in sections. panorama 1. a large extended picture or series of pictures of a scene, unrolled before spectators a part at a time so as to appear continuous 2. another name for cyclorama How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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color) At the Los Angeles Convention Center this week, an audience watches a panoramic screen for previews of newly created video games. Our technology provides a life size, high definition view on a large panoramic screen, which gives users the impression that they're talking to people in the same room. This state-of-the-art facility will use Texaco's innovative application of 3-D visualization technology to interpret millions of bits of data and then project 3-D images of complex geologic structures on an immersive panoramic screen. |
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