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Planets from panos
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 | Tags:
On Flickr I discovered a small group of people experimenting with different projections for their panoramas. Equirectangular panoramas (i.e. full spherical, 360×180°) can be warped in all kinds of mathematical shapes and views, often resulting in comical or just plain beautiful photography (yes, Seb Przd, I’m a fan).
The most popular alternative projections are ‘polarize’, ’stereographic’ and ‘hyperbolic’. They all result in images that look like minuature planets, much like we know them from Le Petit Prince d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
The moment I saw all these little planets, I had to try it out myself. Since I only had a handfull of equirectangular images, my creative output was somewhat limited. Still, I’m quite happy with the result.
