Little Planet Street View

This is a very clever trick (or as they used to say back in the day, a “mash-up”) It uses stereographic projection and WebGL fragment shaders (GLSL) to manipulate the typical panoramic Street View and turn it into a self-contained “little planet”.

Stereographic projection is one of many common mapping techniques. However it has a special effect in being able to create “little planets” when the projection is applied to a spherical panorama rather than a simple map, as you find in Google Maps Street View.

Here are a few of my experiments so for, I am dedicated to this very kind of photographic technique. more to follow soon....