View from a rabbit hole
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What 70s rock band is this an album cover for?
Edison Lighthouse, “View from the Rabbit Hole” (the lost album).
If I can round up the boys I’ll play it live some night.
I’ll make brownies.
Channeling Roger Dean, are we?
:)
I’ll be the round about
The words will make you out ‘n’ out
I’ll spend the day your way……
Call it morning driving thru the sound and
In and out the valley……
I would love to know how this is done. Will the inimitable Mss Ying give a hint?
I recently learned and it turns out to be easy – once you have a good 360 degree panorama image. I stitched together sixteen pictures for this one.
One thing which was a great help was sitting on a box which I’d scripted to offset my view so that I wasn’t in the picture, and was controled by a hud which let me rotate it a set number of degrees each time. That made it easy to make a set of images from a steady viewpoint.
Once you have the panorama its a simple matter of applying some transformations with Gimp or Photoshop:
1 – Open a 360 panorama.
2 – Resize the image so that it’s as tall as it is wide. This hugely distorts the image, but it’s only temporary.
3 – Rotate the image 180 degrees (creates the “small world”, not rotating creates the “view from a hole”).
4 – Select filter –> Distort –> Polar Coordinates
(transfomational information source: http://blogs.esa.int/concordia/2014/02/25/advanced-photography-in-freezing-conditions/ )
And I look forward to the Lighthouse concert.
Thank you Ma’am! You are a Gentlewoman and a Scholar, not to mention a fine Artist.
I resemble this!
Brilliantly done, art thru SCIENCE!!! :)