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Behind the predominant oak tree:
(Lat: 29.71925, Long: -95.400763 Is the west side of Keck Hall (the chemistry department). |
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Last week, I took a GigaPan of which this folloowing snapshot was extracted, http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27578&snapshot_id=84354, and because of the comment of Kilgore's, I again became interested in the life of William Herschel and of his sister, Caroline, especially the astronomical achievements that the two Herschel's made (http://newhumanist.org.uk/1508) while living in Bath, England (from a GigaPan; Zoom Baby, Zoom, their house can be seen here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9802&snapshot_id=85077).
Today in the New York Times, there is a review of a book concerning exactly what I am searching for and is entitled, The Age of Wonder (http://tinyurl.com/mr6zk4), which I would very much like to look at, but Fondren does not have it; however they have another book (The Georgian Star) concerning Mr. Herschel and his sister that I took a fancy to and drove over to the library to get, BUT before going in, I wanted to take a GigaPan of the north side of Brochstein Pavilion and this GigaPan is the result :) With the price of gasoline as it is, it is expensive to be driving back and forth to Fondren all the time and I should maybe consider just to buy a book at the bookstore; however, there is no bookstore in all of the world that has the panoramic vistas that Rice University has and each time I travel there, I see at least one view that I had not noticed before. NOTE: If you never have clicked, View in Google Earth, now is the time to do it. |
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This is the view from the roof on the north side of the building. A great thing about this area is the attention to architectural details in the buildings. To see the view from the south side of the building go to http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=20545 |
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Schools out for summer, and it’s a Saturday, so virtually no one is in the photo. I wanted to get the courtyard below, so I rotated the gigapan 90 degrees so it pointed straight down. In this image the top left is the corner by the airplane, and the lower left to the top of the concert column on the right. There was a incredible amount of overlap towards the horizon, so the stitching there gets a bit crazy. |
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Lots to see in this 360 panorama: The three granite slabs, the different schools and labs and the artwork (figural relief sculpture) at the entrance to Abercrombie Laboratory.
Note: In the title to this GigaPan, I included three degree symbols and because of the symbols, when the GigaPan opened in Google Earth, it failed. Now it works since I deleted the symbols. |
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A simply beautiful late-afternoon view looking north-east from Alice Pratt Brown Hall. To the left is Janice and Robert McNair Hall and to the right is James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University and between the two is Jamail Plaza with its eye-catching fountain.
This hand-held panorama was taken using a Canon SX 110 and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software and additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run. Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer). |
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Standing in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. Across the rivers to the right stands the state of Virginia. Across the Potomac to the left is Maryland. |
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It's a Saturday, and schools out, so no one is in the photo. The building in the foreground are Brown University, and the tall buildings in the background is downtown Providence. The state capital building is at top right. |
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The fall semester is now going into its third week of the school year and on this Labor Day morning, 2009, the fountain in Jamail Plaza is glowing with sunlight. We have taken GigaPans in this area before, but the fountain view screamed for yet another panorama of this beautiful plaza. Baker Hall is the home of James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University , and who can forget the GigaPan of Heather taken last December: http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=13445 The panorama was taken hand-held using a Canon SX110 camera. |
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This is the view from the roof by the observatory on the south side of the building. A great thing about this area is the attention to architectural details in the buildings. Down town Providence it the group of tall buildings near the center of the photo. To see the view from the north side of the building go to http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=20958
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