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I have lived in Seattle since early 1999. I got a camera in early October, 2007 and started taking some pictures. More recently I got into panoramas and have taken a fair number, including hemisphere panoramas and one near sphere -- the last of which was stitched together from 130 individual photos.
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timothy chase at gmail .com
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Fantastic! Simply excellent! LIKE ! Greetings from Switzerland, Arno
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Thanks for the caption info. Very interesting!
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Thank you Elena! It's a very cool place. Blessings to you from Tennessee and Washington!
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Good panoramic view and light,i like your work.Cheers from Germany,Thomas
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... AMAZING...
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Cylindrical panorama, 20 photos taken 2011-11-06 between 14:36-39, 11744 X 2000 px, 72 X 18 degrees. This was taken from the Kinnear Park observation deck, the subject of a hemisphere panorama. It offers a different view of a familiar place.
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Cylindrical projection. 4 photos taken on 2011-11-06 at 16:43, 6427 X 1108 px, 16 X 4 degrees. The photos were taken at Bhy Kracke Park near the southern tip of Queen Anne. It is still just early fall around here. Perhaps a slight chill at night, but you can see the snow along the peaks of the Cascades. Probably there all year round most years. What really stands out for me is how jagged parts of the Cascades are. Just to the right of the main white capped peaks you will see jagged peaks without snow, then further to the right even more jagged peaks with snow. On the right along the bottom edge you can see houses, complete with white trim. This looks like something taken out in the wilderness with only some human habitation, but we are still pretty much in the middle of Seattle, and fairly close to Belltown.
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Update:
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"The 150 Occupy Seattle tents in Westlake Park were taken down by 7:30 Monday morning as Seattle police and Seattle parks employees moved in to clear what the city has long said was illegal camping on city property....
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"No arrests were made overnight Saturday, but protesters said that from about 2 a.m. onward, officers circled the encampment, awakening them in their tents. A police officer who was not authorized to speak said their job was to make sure the protesters didn't sleep."
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8 arrested, tents cleared Monday at Occupy Seattle, By Jennifer Sullivan and Sanjay Bhatt Originally published October 17, 2011 at 7:29 AM | Page modified October 17, 2011 at 9:59 PM http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016527467_occupy18m.html
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The above is an equirectangular projection. I have included it for comparison with the more-normal-appearing, angle-preserving ("conformal") Freeway Park Around Union Square.
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This panorama consists of 36 photos taken 2011-10-02 between 10:19-24. 6827 x 2768 px, 360 x 133 degrees. I have just walked down from the apartments on the Northwest corner of First Hill. Following a concrete path, I passed by artificial waterfalls, then under the 8th Avenue bridge on the right, walking towards the skyscrapers. Freeway Park is behind the Convention Center and built over the I-5 Highway. It is fairly quiet, despite all the traffic underneath, and it offers good views of downtown, including close-up views of the short One and and tall Two Union Square left of center. This was nearly a hemisphere panorama. Short a few degrees at the top. However, this is a Mercator equatorial cylindrical projection that preserves angles which often just gets shortened to "cylindrical" even though there are other other cylindrical projections, such as the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection and the equirectangular projection. With this projection a point source of light would project the sphere (in this case, the field of view) on to a cylinder wrapped around the sphere. With Lambert you project laterally out from the axis of the sphere into the cylinder. With the equirectangular lines of latitude are evenly spaced. So in terms of programming it is the "simplest" from which to do an interactive spherical panorama in which you are able to move around. But it sometimes gets referred to as a non-projection since it is simply cartesian representation of the polar coordinates. Using the Mercator equatorial, Two Union Square doesn't appear compressed at the top, unlike the skyscrapers in 5th and University, where the floors near the top get closer and closer together. Hugin seemed to have an easier time with this scene using the Mercator. To see the difference, please check out the equirectangular Freeway Park Around Union Square 2.
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