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

Comments

  1. Kevin CliftSeptember 10, 2016 at 5:10 PM

    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.

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  2. Richard GreenSeptember 10, 2016 at 5:48 PM

    It looks like an exaggerated Nintendo/Mario world. Is there such a thing as a hyperbolic camera, Roice Nelson?

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  3. Roice NelsonSeptember 10, 2016 at 6:14 PM

    Interesting 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.

    Your 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?

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  4. Saul SchleimerSeptember 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM

    "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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