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The panotools wiki has a good comparison of different projections of the same photo. Google Streetview uses equirectangular pictures to store 360° images. Panini is another type of equirectangular.

Examples

Panini: https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Ben_Equirectangular_panini.j...

Equirectangular: https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Big_ben_equirectangular.jpg

Full list: https://wiki.panotools.org/Projections

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if you have any connection to the admins of that wiki, it would be great to get MultimediaViewer extension enabled - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer

they're on 1.35 right now which is a bit out of date (lifecycle - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle) but an older branch of MMV should work fine on 1.35

I hate this behavior on Wikipedia. Worst part is that people then share links to those views which don't work without running javashit.

If you have an account, you can disable it in preferences. Appearance -> Files -> "Enable Media Viewer" Toggle that off and it'll never happen again

Blocking the scripts in question works better for that without the need to make an account. But neither solves the problem of others sharing links to image views that won't work without scripts enabled.

You can still share a link directly to the file. For example:

* Page with images - https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS * An image in media viewer - https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/CSS#/media/File:Css-wiki-body-b... * The image file page - https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/File:Css-wiki-body-background-i... * The direct image in question - https://support.wiki.gg/images/4/41/Css-wiki-body-background...

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