ITB Panorama Photo /English page/

In the 21th Century we use panorama and gigapixel photos for a lot of things. These things are for example advertising a hotel: showing the rooms of it, making a virtual tour in this hotel. A panorama or a gigapixel photo can display art treausre buildings and protected places without any destroying personal contact. It is possible because of the technique: a panorama photo shows the space in 360

degrees. We can feel that we are in the scene, we are the part of the room or sight just like in the reality. A panorama photo is much more than advertising: it brings closer everything in virtual. A panorama-photographer visits a place and after taking these special photos (and do a processing procedure) shares the experience. It is much safer for the invaluable national historical things (buildings, antiques…) if not a lot of people see them in reality. People can destroy despite of they do not want. A well-done panorama photo can be detailed and not pixelated. . A gigapixel photo consists of hundreds and thousands of 10-20 megapixeled photos assembled. During the procedure, a digital camera and a telephoto lens is placed to a specially developed scaffolding. It is extremely high-detailed. An average photo has 10 megapixels but a gigapixel photo is more than a thousand times detailed. But with a special technique an average Internet browser can display the photo without any deterioration. Just think of it: only one person needed to take these panorama photos but billions of people can see them worldwide and just one more thing is essencial: virtual support. In the new millenium years the Internet is as usual as a book but more interactive. The more interactive a thing is, the more it can entertain and teach. Nowadays we take a lot of normal photos but what if we take extremely useful and entertaining photos for example the panoramas and gigapixel photos? Reality comes closer to the people with them.