By Vurdlak on September 30, 2006, with 72 Comments
Chris Crowe submitted these few weeks ago. As he explains, these photos are taken with a special kind of camera which captures an entire 360 degree view of its surroundings. The result is what looks like a “mini planet”…. “I liked the effect, hope you will also.” – Chris. Actually, they remind me of Mini Planets that Little Prince had to visit on his journey… If you haven’t heard of this famous book by Antoine de Saint Exupery, be sure to read it! Now jump inside this article to see full set of 30 photos. Which one did you like the best? Why? You can also find simmilar illusions in our new forum.
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Man, is this done in photoshop? It seems as if they are stitching together some really wide angle shots.. But i’d rly like to know :-D
these are really cool! i really like the “reverse” one… with the sky in the center and the pavement on the outside
awesome!
@ O.O
read the post…
Very nice. I think that is just cool. haha. its a mini planet. sorry for pointing out the obvious
That’s pretty nifty, I like the San Franciso skyline one. Where can I get one of those cameras?
anybody knows the sources of these images?
damn nice.. how to make the 360 effect ? photoshop?
WOW!!! super cool!
@ oneyard and 0.0–
Like Fool said, read the post.
why isnt there a blank spot in the middle of the image where the camera itself is?? and i’d love to know how that camera actually works and what holds it up if it takes a 360 shot!!
anyway these are still absolutely awesome!!!
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/360one.html here is the solution ;-)
Those are awesome!
gotta love the NY skyline “planet” with the statue of liberty
Wow, gotta get me one of those.
The reverse one reminds me of halo.
The off-center one with the telephone lines is cool too.
i still dont really get how the camera isnt included in these shots :S
hows it being held up etc.
for exampe the beach shot … theres no shaddow
or the one over the water, hows the camera up there.
someone please explain :P
It’s not 360 degrees as in up and down… it’s 360 degrees as in a panoramic shot.
All your curiosities can be answered here… and with photoshop… http://www.photojojo.com/content/tutorials/create-your-own-panorama-planets/
this post is misleading – it makes the guys sound like some kind of wizard.
Hey guys this is asome, how did you do it?
I likes the 2nd city one definitely, it looks like Coruscant from SW…
i’m thinking it might be something like getting the reflection in a ball bearing then taking a picture of it… not so sure
I like the second one, because dude’s head looks HUUGE. xD
And the one with the power lines is cool, and the picture of New York is cool.
I want such camera
incredible and well done
how would a camera do this? This looks more like image editing
i am just curious as to how the camera is suported. it would have to be entirely from above or the supports would show in the picture. i wonder if it is with some sore of small remote controlled plane or what
in some pics the are things like trees or powerlines that may have posibly been used to support but the rest looks like its wide open sky in all directions.
Photoshop isn’t required with these. The camera stitches the panoramic view together itself. The reason you can’t see the camera is because it takes a picture of everything around it. Imagine a watchtower that you can see out of on all 4 sides, then scale it down to a camera on a tripod that can take a picture of everything you see out of the watchtower.
For the ones with only water around it, maybe the non-mini planet part is actually ground, or the camera was suspended on the bottom of a plane.
These are cool.
These look amasing. Whoever did these did very well. It looks to me as an almost identical theme as the bulb screensaver from a while ago, but maybe thats just me.
THAT IS FISHEYE effect done on fotoshop or u kan kall it wide lens view
Ive NEVER EVER SEEN ANYTHING SO CONFUSING AND MIND BOGGLING AND SO DIZZILY
I’m liking the one with the boat.
Also if you look on number 022, you can see what I think is the photographer’s shadow. Very very goood!
O.O
WHOHOHOA…… that is SO wicked!!!!!!!!!
Absolutley incredible. Beautiful stuff!
I understand it uses a special lens or whatever, but I can’t find where it was stitched together. It’s seamless. How?
I’ve yet to look at the site about the camera but the idea of it reminds me of those cameras they use on CSI (on t.v). You just put on on a tripod and then press a button and the camera moves round and creates/stores a virtual room. To purpose is obviously to take it back to the lab and they can recreate the scene on their computers but obviously the camera moves 360 so it’s seamless. I’ll go check the website posted earlier now – no doubt i’ve got it completely wrong.
Look at picture 24 you see a shade of a man holding a camera but nobody is there 0.0.
I love the one with the big circle of people- it looks really nice. And the reversed one is cool too.
But its hard to imagine trees that big on a planet that small. The whole thing must be nothing but roots… hehehe
Very amazing and beautiful. Reminiscent of playing one of the Ratchet and Clanks. Seba719 took the words out of my mouth, Coruscant is what i thought of too. The clouds are also awesome.
Actually this is done by a special camera FYI looking through the actual camera may cause terrible headaches
The special camera used in this kind of illusion is actually used also in outer space exploring. They used 360 degree camera to capture Mars’ landscape around the exploring robot sent there.
ah wan a camma liyk dat!
they arn’t done in photoshop you take the camera and you take multiple shots of everything around you then on the computer it will automaticly stitch them together without a seem to mess it up. then they go into a planit form with another program that comes with it. my cousin has one
NO, it is NOT photoshop. It is a specialty camera. These are the 2d images to show what the scene is of. The actual pictures the camera takes are 3d, and designed for use in 3d tours, such as the kind Quicktime uses. I have viewed some of these pictures from the “inside” (that is, the location where the camera was sitting), and it is really stunning! A full 3d image of the location. Yes you have to look up to see the tops of the buildings, etc. Really cool!
if its a camera that must be the difficult way out; i have a filter for photoshop that does the same effect.
WOW!!! O_o
reminds me of super mario galaxy
Whoa, it looks like you took an insane wide angle lens and stood way above ground somehow, and took the pics, really sweet
most of these fotos could be used as post card photos expecialy the city ones
Most of these were done in Photoshop. While there may be a camera that does this, it is perfectly possible to do this with a normal image editing program.
reminds me of Beautiful Katamari LOL
the city 1 is sweet
it loooks like the world off of the brittish gas addvert lol xxxx
What??????????????????????????????????
no comment……simply boring
The planets are real similar to the planets from Super Mario Galaxy.
thats totally what i thought when i first saw it!
compare them,
wow these aren’t illusions
they are just edited pictures
I like them,they look cool.
they look like the planets on the British Gas advert
These are awesome. I like the night city landscape, the boat in the ocean and the basketball court, gives good symmetry.
taij mahall or however u spell it! it looks scary..i like the night litght city thing that looks like new york[which im from and love] or las vegas. i wonder how it captures the whole thing like the city and how do you get it from the ariel view and get the others from the far in that kind of view?? i dunno but i reall wanna kno. All i kno is that this is just plane amazing!
oh yeah that last one looks like the perfect example of fall time! beautiful! but you can tell that that one is fake but its still pretty cool!
that was long way down :)
thats actually kinda cool, not boring
Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of the little prince story?
They awesome really cool ;) <3
I love this. i think they are panoramic shots that have been twisted and warped.
I know how this is done. my dad did one once. You just use photoshop.
The city one is the best, but they’re all great!
Closest we can get to a photo of a hyperbolic plane. >:D
people before ur all ooh i wanna go to that planet and i wonder how that happened its called fisheye effect
fisheye camera lens? they can see past 180 degrees
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That’s what they did on the Bonkers music clip, so cool.