Reminds me: The days before 9/11 I played with some webcams that let you pan and zoom a cam and take turns if others were using it. There was one on the Empire State because I used it that day... There may have been one on a wtc tower, and I may have tried it too... Already down? Can't remember that well. Anyone else remember that? Or that type of webcam? Later on they got better, but have not looked into them any while. (I'll need to look into it.)
Beautiful. I'd be curious how this shot was taken. Typically if you look to the top/bottom you can see the connection point where the camera was resting but I can't seem to find it in this pic.
I found the MacBook (Pro?) that must have been connected to the camera with an ethernet cable: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/t1HYAIE.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/t1HYAIE.png</a>
Here's the library they use for panorama rendering: <a href="http://krpano.com/" rel="nofollow">http://krpano.com/</a><p>More demos: <a href="http://krpano.com/html5multires/" rel="nofollow">http://krpano.com/html5multires/</a><p>Apparently uses CSS3D and WebGL.
What's inside the top of the antenna-spire?<p>In the documentation video I saw some strobe lights: <a href="http://time.com/10672/making-the-world-trade-center-panorama/" rel="nofollow">http://time.com/10672/making-the-world-trade-center-panorama...</a><p>And a MacBook notebook, as someone pointed out. But what else is behind the glass?
<a href="http://wtc.gigapan.com/wtc/?xml=wtc.xml&view.hlookat=3.86&view.vlookat=39.74&view.fov=2.39#panorama" rel="nofollow">http://wtc.gigapan.com/wtc/?xml=wtc.xml&view.hlookat=3.86&vi...</a><p>What is up with the glass boxes there? Staircase? Elevator?
I wish they'd make something like this that captured time lapse imagery... The construction going on in Brooklyn Bridge Park looks roughly like where they were at last summer. Would love to see the summer turn into this winter we've been experiencing.<p>Really awesome stuff :)