This morning I read a
blog post that caused me to spend a few hours that had been planed for another use, messing around with "
Street View Stereographic". San Francisco-based web programmer Ryan Alexander has created a web app that creates a “little planet” using photos from any Google Street View. Type an address in the search bar, or choose a place on the map with the yellow "Street View" man on the right side of the screen, and the app creates a "tiny planet" from the Street View image on the left side. This is a fascinating way to explore your world, and view familiar scenes through a new optic. You will probably want to save your creations with a
screen shot. (You can read about it at
Wikipedia.)
I've been experimenting recently with another way to create tiny planets - an iPad app called
Tiny Planet, which produces photos like this:
When I had
Adobe PhotoShop installed on my computer, I made tiny planets "by hand". (See
vimeo.com/5547102 or
ruleofthirdsphotography.com/small-planet-effect-4-easy-st... for directions.)
You can see thousands of these photos in the Flickr Groups
Stereographic Projections,
