Photos by TDCinSeattle: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Very nice photo!!!

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A full-circle panorama on a cloudy night. This was taken from in the middle of a parking lot - aiming above the cars.

A full-circle panorama from January 18, 2009. This panorama is fairly clean, having parallax ghost edges in only a spot or two.

A full-circle panorama from January 18, 2009. Unfortunately this particular panorama suffers ghosts from parallax and movement.

A full-circle panorama from January 18, 2009.

Some of the panoramas I was doing this day (January 18th, 2009) were semi-circle. This particular one, however, was full circle. I have also done hemispheres (which make great polar panoramas) and one near sphere which was then transformed into two polar panoramas.

Planet Waterfront Park?

As I mentioned above, this is a near-sphere panorama. As such, I thought it would be interesting to look at this after doing a polar wrap with Gimp. But there are two ways of doing this: the inny and the outie...

These are referred to a "polar panoramas."

This is just a polar wrap on the Near Sphere of Waterfront Park I did a while ago. Unfortunately my computer is a little low on memory, so Gimp froze on me while trying to load the entire original at original size. Jpegs are fairly compact, and once a four MB image is unpacked it takes up a lot of RAM, particularly in Gimp. Consequently what you are seeing was the Waterfront Park image reduced in size by a factor of two in both directions followed by a Distort-> Polar Coordinates. Cutting the scale by a factor of two resulted in a jpeg of roughly 800 KB. Within Gimp this resulted in a RAM image of 80 MB - so the RAM was roughly a hundred times the size of the disk image.

Oddly enough the polar wrap resulted in the image being reflected so that text read like it was being seen in a mirror. So I reflected the image once again - and now the text reads from left to right - once you rotate the image about the center.