What is a panorama? Word meanings

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This term, like many words in Russian, has many meanings. Today we understand: what is a "panorama"? In the most general sense, this is a wide space that the eye falls on.

Broad-minded

Firstly, it is a spacious view that opens from some point (usually, from a high place, a window, a bridge) to a certain point, populated or landscape. For example: "From the loggia of the twelfth floor, a flickering panorama of the city opened up: lights and dark silhouettes of buildings, a tower." Or: “After the market and the square, the pavement went down steeply, and a wide panorama unfolded in front of us: hills and a valley.”

Picture

What is "panorama"? It is also customary to call this word a large picture, where in front of the canvas there are three-dimensional images of objects, figures of people, and the like. This picture is usually located on the wall of a rounded room. Accordingly, the work itself can then be referred to as "panoramic".

Panorama Museum

A vivid example for illustration is the museum depicting the Battle of Borodino. It was opened in 1962 on the site of Fili (now Kutuzovsky Prospekt). The images are based on: advice inFiliakh in the hut and, in fact, the battle of Borodino. On a huge canvas, the course of the battle, which has become historical for the Russian state, is described in detail. For the first time the picture was presented to a wide audience in 1912, on the centenary of the famous event. And the burned-out hut, in which the council took place with the participation of Kutuzov, was restored according to the sketches and testimonies of the officers.

Event Review

What is "panorama"? This term is also called a review, mental or clothed in words, images (video) of various phenomena and facts, events and incidents. For example: "A wide panorama of plots unfolded in the author's thoughts, where the current episode was only a brief fragment of the plot." It is also common to call a television news review this word.

Device and device

What is "panorama" in a technological context? This is the name of a special device, looking into which through magnifying glasses you can see a three-dimensional picture located in the middle of this mechanism (as a rule, in greatly reduced sizes). And for the military, this term means an optical device for the most accurate aiming of cannons and other long-range guns. It allows you to take into account many errors for the most accurate hit of shells on targets.

Panoramic photos and video reviews

In the modern world, with the development of the art of photography, panoramic photography is becoming increasingly popular. This is a general term for everything that can be associated with broad perspectives. In particular, these are the usualpictures of the "prolonged" format in the ratio of height / length one to two, one to three or more. Pictures with a viewing angle of more than one hundred and eighty degrees, exceeding the capabilities of, for example, ordinary average lenses. As well as a photo obtained by assembling from individual frames. Such images can be fully and completely reproduced on photo paper (or on a computer monitor, but in a planar display, without the use of special programs). And they can be virtual, that is, intended for display on a computer monitor using the appropriate software. This allows the intended viewer to “turn their head”, so to speak, looking at different parts of the panoramic space that surrounded the photographer. And yet - spherical, allowing you to look not only to the left or right, but also above your head or under your feet, feeling completely believable on such a "virtual" excursion.