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Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
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Easter Island is the home of a Polynesian culture that developed around an ancestor cult which honored their deceased leaders by constructing "moai" or statues to look over their villages and lend the power of the afterlife to the present population. One of the restored sites on the island is Ahu Tongariki with its line of moai. This panorama shows those moai and, if you pan around 180 degrees, shows one side of the Rano Raraku crater from which many of the moai were quarried. This panorama was shot with a Nikon D200 and 10.5 mm fisheye lens. It is composed of eight shots in portrait orientation, taken at 45 degree increments, plus a zenith shot to fill in the sky above and a hand-held nadir shot to fill in the area covered by the monopod below. To navigate within the panorama, press and hold the left mouse button. Moving the mouse up/down/right/left will shift the viewing window accordingly. Holding down the "Shift" key will zoom in; holding conw the "Ctrl" key will zoom out. The panorama was taken December 26, 2007. It was stitched using PTGui and the high-resolution Quicktime cubic VR generated using the Pano2QTVR utility. |
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If you have the patience and bandwidth to download a 4-meg file, the Quicktime QTVR file will yield much higher resolution than the smaller PTViewer file above. |