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Re: The Library of Congress Panorama Collection
Caroling Geary 2005-Oct-08 18:32:00
In 2000, people from the quicktime-vr list were finding photos from
the American Memory site that matched their own and taking then and
now panos. That is, they photographed the same site as it is now,
from the same point of view. I wonder if they are in the list
archives somewhere. Also, Steve made a sprite that would track one
pano to the other. So spinning the old pano would spin the new one as
well. Mine is not technically perfect, but shows the concept:
http://www.wholeo.net/Trips/Art/Web/TripsArt/Imagine/RitualSpaces/
GaiaPoint/return/reTurnInSync.htm
On Oct 8, 2005, at 12:46 PM, northwest_omnipresence wrote:
> I have taken a look at some (not all) of the past posted entries in
> this group and did not see anything about the Library of Congress'
> collection called "American Memory".
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> There you will find over a century's worth of cylindrical panoramas
> taken between 1851 and 1991! Unfortunately this collection is only of
> the United States, but still, as a historical resource for
> photographers, it is quite an amazing view.
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> Here is the URL for the collection:
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/
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> I stumbled across it earlier this year, and still find myself
> returning to look. The site navigation is somewhat confusing, but
> after a few unnecessary (imho) clicks, you will the TIF and jpg full
> size scans of the images taken with traditional "film" cameras from
> 150 years ago till a decade ago.
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