Panoramic perception refers to a mode of seeing in which landscape is apprehended as a continuous visual field, especially under conditions of rapid movement or wide spatial scope. In the provided context, it is described through the experience of railway travel, where speed transforms nearby details into abstract lines and turns landscape into a flattened, pictorial surface detached from the observer’s body. This shift is linked to the loss of tactile and bodily engagement with space, as well as to the standardization of time and the objectification of the traveler.
The context also connects panoramic perception to motion parallax: when a viewer moves, depth is inferred from the gradient of speed across the visual field. In this sense, panoramic perception is not simply passive viewing, but a structured relation between movement, depth, and temporal order. The text further suggests that in contemporary digital processing, this flattened visual regime can be reworked by introducing heterogeneous temporal layers into image data, thereby destabilizing the usual organization of space and time.