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Paul Heckbert (paulheckbert)
Edgewood, PA,
United States of America
Gigapans: 23
Snapshots: 393
Bookmarks: 6
Last Visited: November 20, 2009
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Software Engineer at GigaPan since 2009. Background in Computer Graphics and Image Processing. Have been mosaicing images with a computer off and on since 1989.
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This panorama is best viewed in Google Earth, where the tops of the tanks will look less distorted. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link.
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Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up.
If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link.
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The tall structure with ramp, closest to the camera is Blast Furnace No. 6, and the one at left, beyond the tanks is No. 7.
The red gantry crane at right was used to manage the huge piles of coke, iron ore, and limestone between the furnaces and the river (at far left & far right in this 360 degree view), and feed them into the blast furnaces.
For background on blast furnaces, see http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/blast-furnace.html
If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link.
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This is the cast house of Carrie Furnace blast furnace number 6. In the floor are the channels or "runners" through which molten iron flowed. Sluice gates (is that the right terminology?) were used to control the flow. The iron poured directly into "torpedo" rail cars parked below this floor, for transport across the Monongahela River to Homestead Works where the iron was refined into steel and rolled into beams and sheet steel. Slag was skimmed off the top of the molten iron here in the cast house and diverted via slag runners into "slag pot" rail cars, also parked below this floor, for disposal.
An explanation of how a blast furnace works: http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/blast-furnace.html
Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up.
If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link.
Photographic note: perhaps the lens flare was caused by dust on the lens; I should have cleaned it.
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Inside the AC Power House of the abandoned Carrie Furnace, Rankin, PA.
Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up.
If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link.
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Goutham Mani, Paul Heckbert, Randy Sargent, Rich Gibson in the CREATE Lab at CMU
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Shot by Randy Sargent.
This image was a preliminary study for the creation of a detailed, 360-degree panorama of the Pittsburgh area from the top of the US Steel Tower and produced in conjunction with an investigation being conducted by David Bear at Carnegie Mellon University's Studio for Creative Inquiry. For information: highpointpark@cmu.edu.
View to the south: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/34121/
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sluice gate
Created: November 15, 2009
Taken From: Cast House of Carrie Furnace No. 6
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pull down on the handle and the (heavy!) gate lifts up, unblocking flow in the channel. The lever arms have counterweights (hanging, or welded on) to make it easier.
Operating these must have been a hellish job.
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