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Bodie is a well preserved ghost town that is now a state park. Read more about it here:
http://www.bodie.com/ This panorama is 1/2 of a 3D photo. The other photo is here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9201 The only way that I can offer to view these images is to open each one in its own GigaPan browser window. One can view using the crossed view method described here: http://home.comcast.net/~holographics/cross.html Some of us have mirror arragements that are used to make maps or dedicated to this sort of purpose (usually not panoramas). These use parallel viewing. The difference is that crossed images have the right image on the left and parrallel is the opposite way. It will take some effort to lineup the right an left images and make the scale the same in both. But it does provide a 3D 360 panoramic view. Now if we could only control both instances with one mouse! Have fun! |
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Bodie is a Ghost town just north of Mono Lake in California. Started in the 1870's it was abandoned several times and finally turned over to the state in the 1960's. Today you can wander the town, look in the windows and wonder what life was like in the old west. |
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Bodie is a well preserved ghost town that is now a state park. Read more about it here:
http://www.bodie.com/ This panorama is 1/2 of a 3D photo. The other photo is here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9202 The only way that I can offer to view these images is to open each one in its own GigaPan browser window. One can view using the crossed view method described here: http://home.comcast.net/~holographics/cross.html Some of us have mirror arragements that are used to make maps or dedicated to this sort of purpose (usually not panoramas). These use parallel viewing. The difference is that crossed images have the right image on the left and parrallel is the opposite way. It will take some effort to lineup the right an left images and make the scale the same in both. But it does provide a 3D 360 panoramic view. Now if we could only control both instances with one mouse! Have fun! Two synchronized cameras were used |
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This is a "low ghost color anaglyph" of Bodie California. The red lens goes over the left eye and the cyan lens goes over the right one.
Bodie was mining town that became a ghost town and is now a state park. Cyanide leaching was developed here in the field to the left below the stamping facility. Undertaking was a thriving business in the profitable world before the time of OSHA. Beyond mining and undertaking this town was know for its taverns, gambling houses, and personal services. It also had electric power in the 1890s since falling water was available and since all or the trees were needed for shoring the mine. Do you see any trees here? There were once, but they were all taken and never replanted. Stealing firewood was a capital offense and you could shoot the culprit on the spot. They built a railroad to get more trees from the North shore of Mono Lake, and those mostly did not come back either. Some pockets of twigs made a few comebacks as trees. But this is what it looks like when only short term interests are served - short term profits, near term deaths, and long term devistation. History repeats itself due to failure to learn from the past. This anaglyph image has some splicing problems. These are due to the fact that foreground spliced and the background did not. If I had excluded the foreground this would not have happened. Of if I had zoomed in the the image more and had a smaller angle between the shots it might have worked better. I post this because it is somwhat interesting to view where it works. This is also to show some what some of the issues are when you try to do this at home. There are actually a hundred people or more that want to shoot stereo panoramas and many are members of Yahoo Groups that take stereo photos (Photo-3D and StereoData Maker (SDM), and tech-3D) |
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This is a view of the Bodie Mercentile and the reflected image of the remains of what was a mining town in California |
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This storefront reflects the town of Bode. One can see some of the contents including an onld lightbulb that has been on a long while. The fashions of the day have fallen off the model in the window fifty years ago. Cans and coffe grinders, miner's lamps, and notions reamin inside the store, much as they were left sixty years ago. This view of the storefront eventually will be added as part of a high dyanamic range panorama. |
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This Ghost town is now protected as a State Park. The gold and silver mine still remains as well as a small percentage of the buildings. Fire has swept through on multiple occasions. A few buildings remain undisturbed and were left with the contents still within them. |
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This is a "low ghost color anaglyh" panorama of historic Bodie. The panorama was taken using a pair of synchronized Canon cameras using a hard wired cable connetion and special software. This panorama spliced realtively well for both the foreground and background. This is intended to be viewed using color anaglyph glasses with the red filter over the left eye and the cyan filter over the right eye.
Bodie was mining town that became a ghost town and is now a California State Park. Liquid mercury was used to extract gold and silver from the ore and then evaporated and condensed to repeat the process. Cyanide leaching was developed here in the field to the left below the stamping facility. Undertaking was a thriving business in the profitable world before the time of OSHA. Beyond mining and undertaking this town was know for its taverns, gambling houses, and personal services. It also had electric power in the 1890s since falling water was available and since all of the trees were needed for shoring the mine. Do you see any trees here? There were once, but they were all taken and never replanted. Stealing firewood was a capital offense and you could shoot the culprit on the spot. They built a railroad to get more trees from the North shore of Mono Lake, and those mostly did not come back either. Some pockets of twigs made a few comebacks as trees. But this is what it looks like when only short term interests are served - short term profits, near term deaths, and long term devistation. History repeats itself due to failure to learn from the past. http://www.bodie.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie,_California http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509 |
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By pressing up against the dirty glass and looking inside one can see what might have been for sale in 1895 or 1930.
One can imagine the response if they asked for credit, or if they has cash for a shopping spree. You might look around to see if they had the items that you came in for, or see if there was something else for you. If you were new in town you might need some supplies to fix up your residence or prepare for work. The butcher shop is next door. You might want a new appliance like one of those new electric toasters, a mailbox , some wood screws, something for your hay fever. perhaps asprin, or some laudanum, a can of pears, some flour, baking powder, coffee, some instant cocoa, a washboard, an ironing board. Borax, a frying pan, a ladle, some cups and plates. You would need a carbide light for work if you were in the mine. Can you find these items here? And look! A telephone. This was a modern town with electricity in 1896. The wires were run as straigth as possible so that the electricity would not leak on on the corners. You might not feel well if you lived herre or worked doing cyanide leaching or working with mercury. There were many more taverns and services available than there were churches. The undertakers had thriving businesses. Wood was valuable, and one could be legally shot for stealing firewood. All of the trees were cut for shoring up the mine and firewood was necessary for survival. The town founder died attempting to return home in a snowstorm. After little girl heard that Bodie was a Godless town, and that she was moving there, she prayed ?Goodbye God, I am going to Bodie?. |
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This Bodie California church was probably used for more funerals than normal services. This mining town was a harsh place to live and an easy place to die. Without trees or sanitation and only jobs in the mine or stamping mill, people died of cold, silicosis, cyanide poining, or went slowly mad with mercury poisoning. Bodie is now a ghost town. Certainly, many of the ghosts would have passed through here.
This church was also used in a famous movie shot and shoo-out in "High Planes Drifter" |