From 80397f2b8b484ee4a277bd1a59d6fbdeff098653 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Garrett Dash Nelson Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 07:52:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fixing an ancient typo --- content/articles/panoramas.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/articles/panoramas.md b/content/articles/panoramas.md index 72fbe8920..429458e90 100644 --- a/content/articles/panoramas.md +++ b/content/articles/panoramas.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ title = "Maps that will make your head spin" .pnlm-load-button > p, .pnlm-load-box > p { color: white !important; } -Last February, our friends at the [Fred W. Smith National Library](https://www.mountvernon.org/library) for the Study of George Washington showed off a [striking digital transformation](https://www.mountvernon.org/library/research-library/special-collections-and-archives/richard-h-brown-revolutionary-war-map-collection/an-18th-century-view-from-beacon-hill/) they'd made of a set of illustrations originally created by the British lieutenant [Richard Williams](https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search?f%5Bname_facet_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Williams%2C+Richard%2C+active+1750-1776) while stationed in Boston in 1775. (Williams's watercolors are part of the Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Collection, [digitized at LMEC for our Revoluationary War portal](https://collections.leventhalmap.org/collections/commonwealth:z603vr25h), and now in the permanent collections of the Washington Library.) Using Facebook's 360 viewer, the Washington Library pieced the five Williams watercolors together to create an immersive panorama showing what Boston would have looked like near the beginning of the American Revolution. Panning around the [virtual reality Williams panorama](https://www.facebook.com/HistoricMountVernon/photos/a.260311453821/10157474018228822/?type=3), you can almost feel as though you're looking out at Boston during the British occupation. +Last February, our friends at the [Fred W. Smith National Library](https://www.mountvernon.org/library) for the Study of George Washington showed off a [striking digital transformation](https://www.mountvernon.org/library/research-library/special-collections-and-archives/richard-h-brown-revolutionary-war-map-collection/an-18th-century-view-from-beacon-hill/) they'd made of a set of illustrations originally created by the British lieutenant [Richard Williams](https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search?f%5Bname_facet_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Williams%2C+Richard%2C+active+1750-1776) while stationed in Boston in 1775. (Williams's watercolors are part of the Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Collection, [digitized at LMEC for our Revolutionary War portal](https://collections.leventhalmap.org/collections/commonwealth:z603vr25h), and now in the permanent collections of the Washington Library.) Using Facebook's 360 viewer, the Washington Library pieced the five Williams watercolors together to create an immersive panorama showing what Boston would have looked like near the beginning of the American Revolution. Panning around the [virtual reality Williams panorama](https://www.facebook.com/HistoricMountVernon/photos/a.260311453821/10157474018228822/?type=3), you can almost feel as though you're looking out at Boston during the British occupation. Panoramas are fascinating cartographic objects, since they attempt to put the viewer back *into* the perspective of experiencing the world in three dimensions. Inspired by the transformation of the Williams panoramas, we created three more virtual reality experiences from panoramic materials in our collections. @@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ pannellum.viewer('bunker-hill-pano', { "type": "equirectangular", "panorama": "https://geoservices.leventhalmap.org/files/panoramas/bunker-hill-pano.jpg" }); - \ No newline at end of file +