Seb Przd is blowing my mind! He's doing a lot with panoramas, HDR, and reprojection-- lovely collections.

Just heard about this "little planets" method for inverting panoramas into a stereographic projection, which is not what I'd expect it to be called. Of course there's a stereographic projection Flickr group-- very cool to browse.

Seems like all you need to do is:

• Shoot and stitch a complete spherical panorama to get an image with an aspect ratio of 2,
• Rotate the image 180 degrees,
• Stretch the image so it's square (aspect ratio 1),
• Run Filters > Distort > Polar Coordinates..., with the "Rectangular to Polar" option.

Google Street View has nice display and interaction of registered panoramic images. They were taken by Immersive Media and by Google using their own custom camera rig. You can tell which by figuring out the camera heght-- the van's pov is much higher. Interesting Boing Boing coverage covers a few issues, but the big qustion for everybody is:

Is this creepy or not, and why?

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PanoramaScanCam (?!)-- Mac A. Cody is working on converting a Umax flatbed scanner to a panoramic camera. When I read the proposal and saw the first sketches a few weeks ago, I thought he would never get there-- there's a lot of work involved-- but here it is! He achieved first light, and the image looks promising. I am most impressed by his (re/ab)use of a toilet tank hose clip in the registration sensor assembly.

Really Right Stuff camera mounts, brackets, bars, etc.

Peace River Studios "PixOrb" motorized panorama head

Panorama of Opportunity landing site

PT Assembler from Tawbaware