Immersive & Capture · 04 of 09

Gigapixel & Panoramic Imaging.

The technique that started everything — still the sharpest tool in the kit. Large-format capture and digital twins, from a TIME cover to a 46-gigapixel tower.

8 projects in this discipline

TIME — One World Trade Center Panorama
2013–2014 · photo

TIME — One World Trade Center Panorama

Stitched TIME's One World Trade Center cover panorama — 567 frames shot from the building's 408-foot spire, assembled into a fold-out cover image that later became the first photo used to launch Facebook's 360 Photos feature.

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2024–2025 · immersive

Sutro Tower 50th Anniversary Virtual Tour

Gigapixel, LIDAR, and photogrammetric 3D reconstruction of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (1,811 ft), built for its 50th anniversary. Most recent independently-documented work.

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Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project
2008 · photo

Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project

The origin of Gavin's entire panoramic career — one of roughly 55 photographers across 20 teams capturing 16 miles of Yosemite Valley on early GigaPan robotic heads, built for NPS rockfall and geological analysis.

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Intel Museum Virtual Tour
2021–2022 · immersive

Intel Museum Virtual Tour

Intel's first digital-twin exhibit — 50+ gigapixel panoramas and photogrammetric 3D scans, VR-ready, live on Intel's own museum site.

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2022 · immersive

One Liberty Observation Deck

Explorable gigapixel panorama for a major observation deck — six touchscreens, roughly 100 interactive points of interest, day and night captures.

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2025 · mixed

DRAX — Immersive Forests

Multi-format capture — gigapixel, 360 video, aerial 360 video, and traditional videography — for DRAX's "Immersive Forests" sustainability film, produced in partnership with UK stitching studio Surround Vision.

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2010–2018 · photo

Murals of Tibet

An eight-year gigapixel capture project across Tibet's most remote regions with art historian Thomas Laird, preserving ancient Buddhist temple murals at ultra-high resolution — published as a SUMO-edition book by TASCHEN in 2018.

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2017 · photo

TOWR Cam

A long-term timelapse and hyperwall installation, one of Panogs' own listed reference projects from May 2017.

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