Based on principles of panorama maps we present an interactive visualiza-tion technique that generates multi-perspective views of complex spatial environments such as virtual 3D landscape and city models. Panorama maps seamlessly combine easily readable maps in the foreground with 3D views in the background – both within a single image. Such nonlinear, non-standard 3D projections enable novel focus & context views of complex virtual spatial environments. The presented technique relies on global space deformation to model multi-perspective views while using a standard linear projection for rendering which enables single-pass processing by graphics hardware. It automatically configures the deformation in a view-dependent way to maintain the multi-perspective view in an interactive environment.
