"three flavors of panoramas"
1. Partial panoramas that's know mainly from traditional landscape photography. They is created by stitching (assembling) of multiple normal photos together side-by-side, which create s a photo with much wider angle this would be possible with a normal lens.
2. cylindrical panoramas is one notch higher than 360° Photos which capture the whole field of view in all directions around the photographer. These is sometimes called cylindrical panoramas. They cover 360-degrees around but not up and down view. These is too created by stitching multiple photos together. The only real difference from a partial panoramas is so need to make sure the first and the last photos overlap. There is also so called "one shot" 360-degree lenses but they is by definition very low quality compared to the Traditio NAL stitched panoramas.
3.Spherical Panoramas is the top of the line which not only capture the 360-degree field of view and in Which can also look up and down. They can even is taken in a-the-a-the-the-' t see the Tripod nor the photographer ' s Shadow in the picture.
Reference: http://www.360cities.net/help/taking-panoramic-pictures/how-to-get-started
Three flavors of panoramas