Google Maps Street View allows y'all to persuasion locations roughly the Blue Planet from the perspective of a panoramic camera. It tin likewise carry y'all into the midpoint of fictional worlds.
For illustration the panoramic Street Views inwards the Big City Map tin carry y'all into the comic mass Blue Planet of the 'Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline' series. Big City Map is a projection past times Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship to digitally recreate the metropolis depicted inwards the Brotherman comics. This digital creation includes a map of the metropolis too 3 interactive Street View scenes of locations inwards Big City.
Currently the Big City Map allows y'all to explore custom Street Views of 922 Vex Boulevard (pictured above), 550th Street too 456 Street, Tautyard, Big City. Select whatsoever of these 3 scenes too y'all tin explore their 360 score panoramic images - only every bit y'all would explore a existent Blue Planet place amongst Google Maps Street View.
This isn't the showtime fourth dimension that Street View type panoramas convey been used for artistic depictions. The Grand Master of Street View fine art has to endure Raúl Moyado Sandoval. Raúl has been creating panoramic paintings since 2013.
Back inwards 2013 Raúl used the Google Maps API's Custom Street View characteristic to practise immersive 360 score landscape paintings. Mobile Cyclorama has at i time moved on from the Google Maps API. These days Raúl creates 360 score panoramic images which tin endure viewed using a VR headset, on a mobile device or on a desktop computer. Mobile Cyclorama likewise includes a brief overview of the history of panoramic paintings, which appointment dorsum at to the lowest degree to the 18th century.
The Big City Map isn't fifty-fifty the showtime fourth dimension that 360 score panoramas convey been used to describe fictional worlds. For illustration at that topographic point is Julien Gauthier amongst his wonderful biopunk inspired BANGKOKXXIII - 360 Street. This 360 score panoramic epitome depicts a scene inspired past times Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl. As y'all rotate roughly this panoramic epitome an imagined Asian street scene looms over your betoken of view, amongst towering skyscrapers, an overgrown overpass too fifty-fifty a gigantic elephant.
