HDR Panorama: St John's Hampstead

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High Dynamic Range panoramas should, in our view, be a first stop for any visualization of architecture, planning or design projects. They are quick to capture and provide a useful context for off site meetings or online communication of design. In addition they can be used as the basis for 3D modeling, complete with realistic lighting via the HDR capture.

The image above is of St John's Church in Hampstead - a Grade I listed building and has stood on the site since 1823 in an architectural style more reminiscent of New England than London churches of its time.

Click 'Load' and drag to look around, select 'Open' to view full screen.

The St John's website notes that:

'As a proprietary chapel, St John's is recognised as a church within the London Diocese of the Church of England but has complete independence in financial matters. It receives no support from and makes no contribution to Diocesan Funds. It is entirely self supporting and all costs, including staff and building costs, are borne by the congregation which has owned the building since 2003 when they bought it from the family trust which had owned it and leased it to them since the First World War'.

You can view a higher resolution version of the panorama via our Flickr Group.

Twin Peaks San Francisco Interactive Panorama and Embedded Video

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Above is a 360 x 180 degree panorama of Twin Peaks in San Francisco complete with an embedded video hanging between the two aerial masts. Click 'Load' the video with sound will appear shortly after the panorama, you can then click and drag in the normal way to pan around scene, zoom in and out using the either the mouse wheel or the Ctrl/Shift keys.

We recommend clicking 'Open' to view fullscreen to fully experience the video/panorama mix.

For those who just want a quick look at how it works we have included a video preview below:


San Francisco Panorama with Embedded Video from digitalurban on Vimeo.

We don't say this often about our own examples, but we think its pretty neat...

England's Suburbia: A Panoramic View

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Suburbia is a surreal experience when your usually based in the city 24/7. The panorama below highlights the quiet estates which are typical of 80's newbuild in the United Kingdom.



Click 'Load' in the above image and click and drag your mouse to look around 360 x 180 degrees, once loaded you can click 'Open' to view full screen.

The image was captured using a 30 foot pole, we should have more on the technique on the blog later next week....

For those interested you may like to take a look at our latest post Twin Peaks San Francisco Interactive Panorama and Embedded Video

Cloud Gate Chicago Flash Panorama

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Above is a 360x180 degree panorama of Cloud Gate, Chicago. Click load to view - click and drag to look around. To view fullscreen (recommended) simply click 'open' and again click and drag.

Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.


Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high.

Banksy Chambermaid Camden Town: Panorama

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The panorama above was captured in front of the Chambermaid stencil by the artist Banksy, created in May 2006, on the wall of the Roundhouse in Camden. According to an article in the Camden New Journal the maid is a portrait of Leita who worked in a Hotel in Los Angeles.

It is embedded in the blog as a first test using a preview/load technique - if you click 'load' then fingers crossed you should be able to look around the scene by clicking and dragging.

Once loaded click 'Open' to view the panorama full screen and again click and drag to look around.

How to Embed Flash Panoramas in Blogger and WordPress

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Another test of embedding Flash based panoramas into Blogger - this time with the Houses of Parliament at Night, click and drag to look around:

An example of Gothic Architecture the Houses of Parliament were constructed between 1840 and 1888. The panorama is taken outside the main tower near Westminster Bridge and the River Thames. The tower stands 320 foot tall and is named after the largest bell, 'Big Ben' which weighs over 13 tons, and was cast in 1858 at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in East London.

How is it done?

1) See http://flashpanoramas.com/player/ for the viewer.

2) Create your webpage with the viewer and your panorama

3) Embed in blogger/wordpress using an iframe as per the code below:

Embedding Panoramas into a Blog: Westminster Abbey

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This is an experimental post to see if its possible to embed a 'click and drag' panorama into a blog post using a flash based viewer.

Westminster Abbey is a work of outstanding architecture, constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries. The Abbey has been the location for numerous Royal Weddings as well as every Coronation since 1066. The building as it is today features the west towers which were completed to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

All being well you should be able to view the panorama below.

Click and Drag to look around:

We have over 100 panoramas on the blog so if this works for the majority of readers it could make a nice way to revisit some of the best.... (?)