Photosynth
Photosynth
Photosynth is another way to show reality. On the basis of photographs a three-dimensional space is modeled. Depending on the number of images you can create an image, nearly infinite in zooming. Classic panoramas allow you to ""look around"", and the quality of approximation to the object will be limited by the quality of the panorama. Photosynth allows you both to create panoramas, and to move around the object.

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Laocoon
In Greek mythology, Laocoon is the priest-prophet from Troy. Laocoon warned the Trojans of taking the gift from their enemies ("Trojan horse") - and for that he was punished. The enraged goddess Athene sent monstrous snakes to kill the priest and his sons.

The original sculpture was created by the Greeks in the Ist century BC, and now it is kept in the Vatican.
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"The Golden Child"
The sculpture "The Golden Child" appeared at the entrance to the Sea Port in 1995, the design was presented to Odessa by the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny.

The statue symbolizes both youth and strength of the seaport town, using the auther's words "something new, coming into being, to which belongs the future."
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Monument to the founders of Odessa (Catherine)

Once on Ekaterininskaya Square there was laid a never-finished church of St. Catherine, then it was a square with a fountain, and unveiling of a monument to the founders of Odessa took place in 1900 (the architect Y. Dimitrenko).

The Empress Catherine the Great stands on a granite pedestal (the height of the figure is about 4 m), her associates near her: Joseph de Ribas, Franz de Volan, Grigory Potemkin, Platon Zubov.
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Monument to Orange

This monument is a reminder of an interesting event in Odessa history. After the death of Catherine, the heir of the throne Paul I halted many of her initiatives, including the construction of the southern city. Then Odessans decided to win the emperor’s favor by sending a gift to him: a wagon train of selected overseas fruit - oranges. Paul was pleased and gave a generous loan for the construction. So oranges saved Odessa, as geese saved Rome.
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Joseph Deribas

Joseph Deribas (Don Jose de Ribas) - the founder of Odessa, a noble Spanish nobleman, the vice-admiral in the service of the Russian empress Catherine. His detachment took the Turkish Hadzhibey in 1789 and then Deribas persuaded Catherine that the best place for the main southern port is right here on the site of Hadzhibey. In 1794 first buildings and the port were laid under the direction of the Spaniard. Grateful Odessans named after him main street of the city, Deribassovskaya (called so since 1811).
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The House of Scientists

The House of Scientists is a two-storey mansion near the Sabaneyev bridge, once belonged to Count Mikhail Tolstoy (distant relative of the great Russian writer.) Built in 1832 in the style of Russian classicism.

The Tolstoys were known in Odessa as patrons of the arts, they financed the construction of the new Opera House and the Public Library, at their house there worked a Sunday school for the poor.
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Kisa

Kisa Vorobyaninov - the hero of The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov, a former leader of nobility from the city N. Soviet viewers well remember in his role an actor Papanov, in the screen version, with Mironov in the role of Ostap Bender.

A full-height sculpture of Kisa has recently appeared in the City Garden, at the entrance of the restaurant Pecheskago. Vorobyaninov is depicted with his hat in his hand outstretched, as if to say "je ne mange pas six jours ."
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Petya and Gavrik

An unusual monument in the Preobrazhenskaya street. Two bronze boys, sitting back to back and looking into the distance, a symbol of friendship and youth. A gymnasium student Petya and a son of a fisherman Gavrik - the main characters of the novel written by an Odessan, Valentin Kataev, Lone White Sail. Just as Odessan Tom Sawyer and Heck Finn, two friends experience adventures in revolutionary Odessa of 1905, enjoying the sea and saying goodbye to childhood.
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The Potemkin's

A Monument to “Potemkin's” (sailors, participants of the rebellion on the battleship Prince Potemkin Tavricheskiy, in 1905). The monument has only recently taken its place in the Tamozhennaya (Customs) square at the entrance to the port.

And since its creation in 1965 (the anniversary of the uprising) - it stood on the Ekaterininskaya Square. But when a historical monument to Catherine (the founders of the city) was returned onto the square, the "Potemkin's" had to be moved.
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Vera Kholodnaya

In the lively place in Preobrazhenskaya street, close to the Sobornaya square, there stands a monument to a beautiful woman, the legend of the Russian silent cinema, Vera Kholodnaya.

The heavenly beautiful brunette with big sad eyes became a "star", - as they would say today, - in 1914, after the film of the director Bauer The Song of the Triumphant Love. In Odessa, the actress spent her last months, of her short and brilliant life. In the midst of shooting of the film
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House of Navrotskiy
Next door to the Opera House there is a beautiful building known as the house of Navrotskiy. Built in 1843, by the project of the architect Torricelli.

The facade faces the Lanzheronovskaya street and Palais-Royal square, the front side looks at the theater. Facades and interiors are lavishly decorated in the the style of "pseudo-barokko", white stucco work looks very elegant on the background of red brick.
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