What is a panorama? Meanings of the word

This term, like many words in the Russian language, is multi-valued. Today we understand: what is a "panorama"? In the most general sense, this is a wide space, on which the view falls.

Wide horizons

Firstly, it is a long view that opens from a certain point (usually from a high terrain, a window, a bridge) to a certain point, populated or landscape. For example: "From the balcony of the twelfth floor a shimmering panorama of the city opened: lights and dark silhouettes of buildings, a tower." Or: "Behind the market and the area, the roadway went steeply down, and before us unfolded a wide panorama: the hills and the valley."

Picture

What is a "panorama"? Also, this word is usually called a large picture, where before the canvas are three-dimensional images of objects, figures of people and the like. This picture is usually located on the wall of the rounded room. Accordingly, the work itself can then be called "panoramic".

Panorama Museum

A vivid example for illustration can serve as a museum depicting the battle of Borodino. It was opened in 1962 on the place of Fili (now Kutuzovsky Prospekt). The images were based on the advice in Fili in the hut and, in fact, the battle at Borodino. On a huge canvas in detail describes the course of the battle, which has become a historic for the Russian state. For the first time the picture was presented to a wide audience in 1912, to the centenary of the famous event. A burnt hut, which was held by the council with the participation of Kutuzov, was restored according to sketches and testimonies of officers.

Event overview

What is a "panorama"? This term is also called a review, mental or worded, images (video) of various phenomena and facts, events and incidents. For example: "In the author's thoughts a wide panorama of the plots developed, where the current episode was only a brief fragment of the outset." Also often a television news review is usually called this word.

Device and device

What is a "panorama" in a technological context? This is called a special device, looking at which through the magnifying glasses you can see the volume picture, located in the middle of this mechanism (usually in a very reduced size). And for the military this term means an optical device for the most accurate guidance of guns and other long-range guns. It allows you to take into account many errors for the most accurate hit of projectiles in the target.

Panoramic photos and video reviews

In the modern world, with the development of the art of photography, panorama photography is becoming increasingly popular. So generalized is everything that can be associated with broad prospects. In particular, these are the usual pictures of the "prolonged" format in the ratio of height to length, one to two, one to three or more. Images with an overview angle of more than one hundred and eighty degrees, exceeding the possibilities, for example, of the usual average lenses. And also the photo obtained by assembling from separate frames. Such images can be fully reproduced on photographic paper (or on a computer monitor, but in a flat display, without the use of special programs). And can be virtual, that is intended for displays on the computer monitor with the help of the appropriate software. This allows the prospective viewer, so to speak, to "rotate his head", looking at various parts of the panoramic space, of what surrounded the photographer. And more - spherical, allowing you to look at the views not only to the left or to the right, but also above your head or under your feet, feeling entirely believable on such a "virtual" tour.