Hi Peter,

sorry I am getting in late on this thread - got plenty of backlog to 
process in my in-box.

Peter Gawthrop wrote:
>   I have been playing with generalisations of the stereographic
>   projection. Given a "view sphere" of a 360 panorama, the basic idea
>   is the float around inside that sphere and then project on to either
>   a plane or a cylinder.

and how about a sphere again?


> Conventional perspective comes from
>   projecting from the centre of the sphere, and stereographic from the
>   back, onto a plane. This projection allows projection from anywhere
>   in the sphere in any (meaningful) direction.
> 
>   First tries at using this at 
> 
>   http://www.flickr.com/photos/gawthrop/sets/72157614419442162/
> 
>   At the moment, it's a mathmap implementation. But I would like to
>   think about putting it in hugin and/or panini. Note that, unlike the
>   Panini projection, the aim is to distort - albeit in a meaningful way.
> 
>   Comments&suggestions appreciated.

beautiful, and I think *very* useful too. Is the mathmap implementation 
available for playing somewhere?

Yuv

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