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The construction of the Convent of Mafra is described in José Saramago’s book "Memorial do Convento" (in english “Baltasar and Blimunda”).
My friend Robin Scholz made recently a beautiful 360º snowy panorama. Many people seem to be interested in this area so I decided to post some spherical panoramas and point instructions and software to make them.
You may find instructions on how to make your own spheric panoramas here and here.
You can also make panoramas with the free software Microsoft ICE that you may download here.
To make the other steps and get a planet you may use the open source www.getpaint.net/download.html.
The free Paint.net plug-in to make the Polar transformation is here.
A spherical Islamic star pattern with many six-pointed stars and cubical symmetry. See also the ball's page on Shapeways.
The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides, frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.[1][2][3][4]
Local Māori legends explained the boulders as the remains of eel baskets, calabashes, and kumara washed ashore from the wreck of Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. This legend tells of the rocky shoals that extend seaward from Shag Point as being the petrified hull of this wreck and a nearby rocky promontory as being the body of the canoe's captain. In 1848 W.B.D. Mantell sketched the beach and its boulders, more numerous than now.
Text from (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeraki_Boulders)
Aluminized "balloon" reflector, like those designed for use as optical and radio targets in space.
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Capped the cylindrical magnets with N42 grade black spheres. They are stronger than the cylinders so the combined magnetic force of the pair (sphere plus cylinder) should help stabilization.
Yin and Yang spherical disection on a 30 studs diameter lego sphere. The Sphere can be splitted into 5 parts so that all black and all white lego parts are separated.
Black and white keys assembled.
This spherical object is public art on the campus of U.C. Berkeley. This view is from the north side, if you come around to the right, the west side, there's a round hole all the way through it. You can see all sorts of mechanical detail inside from the four different directions. On this side, it looks to me like Pikachu, the famous Pokemon, has been blown out through the side in a sort of Warner Brothers cartoon explosion. People who don't have kids or haven't been in the age range for Pokemon won't see it. I can't un-see it. You're welcome!
According to the SF Chronicle's story about sculpture on the UCB campus, (www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-UC-sculptures-mak...)
the sphere is the work of Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, Its name is "Rotante Dal Foro Centrale". Cal's example is one of several Pomodoro made, variations on a theme. that are distributed around the world. It was indoors originally, but cleaned up and moved to its present location in 2005.
Search in Flickr or Google it and you'll see a lovely shiny gold finish that it started with, not unlike NASA hardware. You can also see it from every angle.
The spherical brass incense burner, engraved with arabesque design and inlaid with silver, has an inside pivotal suspension needed to hold the central bowl containing incense in an upright position, when the sphere is rolled. The pierced decoration allows the incense smoke to escape. Diameter: 18,4 cm.
Mamluk dynasty, AD 1277-79, Damascus, Syria.
October 4, 2012, Canon 7D.
Canon RF 100mm F2.8 L Macro IS USM
Some sample portraits with the spherical aberration control.
Filename shows the position of the SA control ring.
A spherical Islamic star pattern with many six-pointed stars and cubical symmetry. See also the ball's page on Shapeways.
Silver. Diameter: 14.3 cm. Elmali. Tumulus D.
Phrygian Period, late 8th -7th centuries BC.
A small spherical silver pot hammered from a single sheet of silver. Applied ring attachments on either side
of the lip for a chain or metal handle. Found in a grave and not made for everyday use.
Five marble sized balls of water/sugar gel in agar immersed in baby oil. The three on the right have uniform sugar concentration. The two on the left have been soaked for an hour in water to diffuse sugar from the outer layers to set up a radial refractive index gradient like that in the spherical lens in the eye of a fish.
Sitting jellyfish Lucernaria quadricornis (juvenile) eating small crustecean amphipoda Caprella linearis
Festive spirit in the most mundane object and place: a salt dish in a traveling salesmen's restaurant...
On the second day of waiting to fly back home, stuck between a crowded airport and an out-of-town hotel amidst an industrial zone, waiting to be served the 'complimentary' meal... With nothing better to do, you reach for the camera (the Nex can be almost as omnipresent as my phone) and snap the nearest nonsense from all possible angles. Luckily, shiny balls are a seasonal theme, so I sort of did my 'greeting card' :)
Spherical/Equirectangular image from Juno3D Mathematica Pipeline (available on GitHub) with simple levels/gamma adjustment in Photoshop. Adjustment not applied to Io area (because adjustment makes Io disappear.) No manual reconstruction/repositioning of Io.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
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In the kitchen after a long day. Wish I had turned the lights on in the living room...
Best 360 viewing here:
Last December, I began exploring 3D imagery through Photoshop. In contrast to everything I’d done up to then, using Photoshop to generate the images made me rethink how I did it, and how the image could be used.
I did an earlier image called Sibling Breakfast Table that was the result of a 360/720 panorama that I made when my sister, Laurel, and her husband, Rene, visited. Distortions crept in trying to make a spherical panorama work right so the picture was constantly being revised. Then, I began working with Photoshop and its 3D option. Imagine, then, my joy when the Photoshop spherical projection worked flawlessly and easily. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that the spherical image weighed in at 840 megabytes. So the image just sat there in my storage, waiting…waiting…
Yesterday, very late in the evening around 12:15am, (why do I always get the good ideas so late at night??), I realized I could probably make a movie. It wouldn’t have the interactivity I wanted but it would show it, and the video would be much smaller megabyte-wise. That turned out to be true.
Best of all, I can load the video into my VR headset so It is now a part of my VR project, Line of Sight.
You don’t need any special software to run this image, or to look at it. I really hope you enjoy it. All you need is a video player that is compatible with MP4 format.
Aperture: f/13.0
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Commentary:
I spotted this sculpture glistening in the sun within the first few minutes of shooting. There were several geometric elements featured on it but I was drawn to the top most part.
I wanted to capture symmetry, texture, and height. So, I zoomed in, titled straight up, and spent 15 minutes capturing this spherical orb in the sky.
Video: youtu.be/dySJgrtLNmQ
Inspired by Sonyador6's Solid Surface Hollow Sphere: youtu.be/qi92AxB2YRk
Made with Structure Synth (http://structuresynth.sf.net)
The EisenScript:
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