Little Scooter Little Planet Little Sky
Little Scooter Little Planet Little Sky
I've been having a lot of fun with my new spherical camera. Here is a side-by-side of "little planet" and "little sky" projections from a quick scoot around the neighborhood.
I used the following tools to make this:
Ricoh Theta S camera, for filming
https://theta360.com/en/about/theta/s.html
RollWorld iPhone app, to project the spherical video
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rollworld-tiny-planet-photos/id867960225?mt=8
FFmpeg, to preserve audio and do the side-by-side
https://ffmpeg.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmgJm0W3q00&feature=share
I've been having a lot of fun with my new spherical camera. Here is a side-by-side of "little planet" and "little sky" projections from a quick scoot around the neighborhood.
I used the following tools to make this:
Ricoh Theta S camera, for filming
https://theta360.com/en/about/theta/s.html
RollWorld iPhone app, to project the spherical video
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rollworld-tiny-planet-photos/id867960225?mt=8
FFmpeg, to preserve audio and do the side-by-side
https://ffmpeg.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmgJm0W3q00&feature=share
I see that you mean scoot quite literally. You might want to share notes with Trevor Cox as he's just bought a Ricoh too, but he doesn't seem to reply to comments here.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like an exaggerated Nintendo/Mario world. Is there such a thing as a hyperbolic camera, Roice Nelson?
ReplyDeleteInteresting question Richard Green! Hyperbolic space also has a visual sphere for each point, so perhaps an entire-view hyperbolic camera is the same as this, and the only difference is that whatever is out there (on spheres of a given radius) covers more area than it would in Euclidean space.
ReplyDeleteYour question makes me wonder if spherical is even the best term to use for these cameras. I do still like it better than the other term I see in common use, "360 camera". Henry Segerman, have you run across other terms for these cameras?
"4*\pi camera" is better than "360 camera", as we are discussing solid angle (two dimensional) instead of angle (one dimensional). But "spherical camera" is probably better still - common names shouldn't have numbers or Greek symbols in them...
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