"A Catwalk-thin Dalek"

[sbisson]

The BT Tower is 40 this weekend.

We know how much it weighs, 13,000 tons, as well as the degree to which it is designed to sway, about 8 inches, in winds of up to 100mph. In winter the Tower contracts; in summer it expands by as much as nine inches.

Click here for a QuickTime VR panorama I made from photographs I took from the tower a few years ago. Be prepared for a wait - it's a 5MB file made from 40 or so photographs taken from each window on the observation deck while it was stationary. As it was made from a set of 4 Mpixel images there's quite a bit of zoom available too...


One of the photographs I used to make the 360° panorama.

Comments

Heh...

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

Another shot of it: http://rockethouse.net/5c_pages/sub5c08.html

[nolley.livejournal.com]

... and it's a pain in the arse to work in. It's not very wide you see.

Panorama from BT Tower

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for putting this online. Since the tower is no longer open to the public, this gives us a chance to see what we are missing by not being able to go up in the tower.