Week 29: 360 Panorama

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Week 29 Assignment: 360 Panorama

I am a little late with my post this week mainly because I have been trying to figure out how to create a 360 Panorama. The original 360 panorama I had in mind is not what you see above, I came upon this by chance in my research. It is a 360 panorama, but a different kind called a Planet Panorama. The original I had in mind was more of a movie, or VR (Virtual Reality) panorama which you can scroll on the image, left or right continuously, to see the full view of the panorama. I will get back to one of those in another week.

I have to say, the Planet Panoramas are some of the most unique images I have created in some time and I plan on doing more. They were not too difficult to create. You still start with creating a normal panorama, with multiple images, but you need to go a full 360 degrees. You then stitch them together as usual, in Photoshop or some other image software. Then the trick to create the planet pano is to squish it into a square format, flip it upside down, and apply a "distort/polar coordinates" filter to it in Photoshop.

The possibilities are endless in the many mini planets you can create of your own. The first two I created are above: The first is of an almost empty parking lot and after I created it, I realized I need to have all sky at the top or it does the stretch of the trees. The second, is my world in my own backyard, I hope I don't fall off.

Coming Next:

Week 30 Assignment: Clones!