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Wortham Center - Grand Foyer

This is an equirectangular panorama of the Grand Foyer at the Wortham Center in Houston, TX. For those who aren't from Houston or otherwise aren't familiar with the Wortham Center, this Houston gift - located along Buffalo Bayou on Texas Street, is home to the world renowned Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera. It was built with $66 million dollars of private funds in 1987, as part of a philanthropic-induced influx of world class performing arts in Houston.

Best viewed as an interactive 360 degree flash movie!

[~6 megs, so it'll take a moment to load] Once it does, click & drag to look around.

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Uploaded on Nov 10, 2009

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Planet Houston, Space City

This is a stereogrphic projection of the Houston skyline, taken from the Sabie Street Overpass.

Best viewed as an interactive 360 degree flash movie!

This was taken as a 360 degree equirectangular panorama using a Nodal Ninja panoramic tripod head, and a Tokina 10-17mm lens.

6 photos around @ 60 degrees between shots, plus 1 Zenith & 1 Nadir
Stitched in PTGui Pro 8.2.2
Color/curve/sharpness adjustments in Photoshop

Process used for creating little planet:
- Load Equirectangular image into Photoshop
- Image > Adjust > Size --- match height to width without constraining proportions
- Rotate image 180 degrees
- Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar option selected)

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Uploaded on Nov 7, 2009

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Islamic Da'wah Center

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Uploaded on Oct 24, 2009

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And here it was all just a dream

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Uploaded on Oct 23, 2009

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