Stereographic Projection, 360° x 180° Panorama Photography

by Burstein! on April 27, 2009 · 2 comments

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Parc départemental du Val-de-Marne

photo by Alexandre Duret-Lutz

A stereographic projection is technically mapping a sphere onto a plane. What photographers like Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Masato, Seb Perez-Duarte, Boltron and Masakazu Matsumoto have done is take a 360° panorama photograph that covers -90° (the ground) to 90° (the sky) and then mapped that onto a plane.

Monocyclic star

photo by Masakazu Matsumoto

Regardless of how it is done, the effects are beautiful.

The river which flows into the sky

photo by Masato

Masakazu Matsumoto provides a FAQ on the technique at his flickr set.

via Pink Tentacle

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1 Matsumoto April 29, 2009 at 6:30 am

Thank you for introducing my picture. However, it is not me to provide the FAQ. That is gadl’s.

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2 Scott Beale April 29, 2009 at 9:19 am

Sorry about that, I’ve updated the post.

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