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<br />You can sure see the effects of artillery smoke on the battlefield. As I understand it, the cyclorama is a 360 degree view from a central point?
BG Drex Ringbloom,
Cdr, 2nd Div "Corcoran's Legion", VIII Corps
Army of the Shenandoah
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Drex,
Actually I learned the cyclorama I've been visiting all these years was not properly displayed. The painting needs to be displayed from a raised platform (which it was in the old building) with a hyperbolic ceiling so you cannot see the top of the painting (this was not possible as most of the sky was missing) and a diorama type display at the bottom so you can't see that either. When these are all combined it produces an almost 3D effect. During the rehabilitation they discovered a minature copy of the original painting that was used to redo the sky and some missing pieces of the painting. I learned all this from the short presentation I attended this weekend that included an extended look at the painting with the lights up where most of the pictures were taken.
With the climate controlled building it is now housed in, the restored sky height and the diorama at the base in the subdued lighting it is normally shown in the effect is fantastic. Unfortunately my camera and my photography skills are not good enough to take pictures in that low a light level without a flash so all of the ones I've posted were done with the lights up.
Gen. Ken Miller
3/VIII
AoS
