In its most general sense, a panorama(from Greek )'s any wide view of a physical space. It's also come to refer to a wide-angle representation of such a view—whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model. Further, the motion-picture term, pan or panning,'s derived from "panorama". The word was originally coined by the Irish painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh. Shown on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the insid… (More on Panorama)