Smart Way of Visualizing Spherical Panoramas: Little Planets

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Posted on : 28-06-2009 | By : Jan | In : 360 panoramas

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I’ve been toying recently with various representations of a spherical panorama. The stereographic (or little planet) projection has become my favorite for various reasons:

* I think it’s the most interesting way to represent a spherical panorama (much less boring than the usual equirect I used in this blog post)

* It’s also more practical because the image’s width to height ratio is usualy 1:1 so it displays nicely almost everywhere

* It’s definitely more creative because you can tweak each image quite a lot (you can rotate the “viewpoint”, alter horizontal compression, move the center, etc.)

Take a look at some examples:

Tram Public Transport in Prague, Czech Republic

Wind Harvester Farm

Mexico City

Click on the images to view interactive versions.

Please send me links to little-planet images you find or your own.

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