some panorama links
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostas/omni.html (cameras)
http://panoramas.dk/ (everything site)
http://www.kaidan.com/ (hardware)
http://www.fullview.com/ (simple flat mirror)
http://www.panoguide.com/howto/panoramas/ (howto)
http://panotools.org/ (wiki)
http://www.kekus.com/ (tools)
http://www.edvec.ed.ac.uk/html/projects/panorama/ (history)
http://www.hidef.com/rigs.html#circlevision (history)
http://www.panoscan.com/ (digital slit)
http://residence.aec.at/wegzeit/index2.htm (cool path networks)
http://www.cliffordross.com/R1/R1-BPSpaper.html (big picture summit)
Google “gigapixel”