Small Planet in WebGL

Firefox 8.0 has just been released and Google Chrome 14 is already! They both support the combination WebGL / CORS. So, 3D is now available for almost any web browser without additional plug-in!

Click on the image below to view this generator of mini-planet in Javascript and WebGL.

Cake Divider for iPhone/iPad/iPod

The simple task of cutting a cake fairly is always a challenge when the number of slices is not a power of two.
This augmented reality application is very simple and draws on the screen a configurable number of slices over an image coming from the camera.
CakeDivider allows you to cut your cake fairly. It works for any kind of round cake, pie or pizza. It is simple and very useful.

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QUICK START

1) Choose the number of slices at the bottom of the screen. This causes the screen to draw a sliced disk.
2) Hold your device over your cake.
3) Thanks to the camera, you just have to follow the traces on the screen with your knife and cut your cake perfectly.

REQUIREMENTS

- iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad
- Camera

Small Planet for iPhone/iPad/iPod version 2.0

Small Planet version 1.0 is dead, long life to Small Planet version 2.0!
This is a new application available in the App Store. It costs 0.79€ (0.99$) because unfortunately developing an application for iPhone is not free!

The changes are, less bugs and the ability to send the image, not only in the album as before, but also on Facebook, Twittter/Twitpic, Tumblr and in an email ready to send!

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QUICK START

1) Select a place on the map
2) Drag and drop the orange humanoid on the map
3) Push the "Go" button to generate the planet
4) Adjust the planet like you want by rotating with one finger or zooming with two
5) Save the result in your photo library or other


REQUIREMENTS

- iPhone (3GS or later), iPod Touch (3rd generation and later) or iPad
- Internet connection (Wifi or 3G)
- GPS recommended

Small Planet

Today, my little funny application Small Planet has been released on the App Store


DESCRIPTION

What planet are you from?

Generate a small-planet from where you are and send it as a postcard to yours friends!

This application makes a stereographic projection of the place you are on the map.




DOWNLOAD

QUICK START

1) Select a place on the map
2) Drag and drop the orange humanoid on the map
3) Push the "Go" button to generate the planet
4) Adjust the planet like you want by rotating with one finger or zooming with two
5) Save the result in your photo library


REQUIREMENTS

- iPhone (3GS or later), iPod Touch (3rd generation and later) or iPad
- Internet connection (Wifi or 3G)
- GPS recommended

Mini-planets with javascript and O3D

Click on the following image to pop up the show.

You will need to install the Google O3D plugin to play with it!

Mini Planets 2

The Saint Martin church in Brest view with the new version 0.3 of StreetViewMapper

The Sacré Coeur in Paris

Las Vegas the day

Las Vegas the night

Mini Planets

EDIT 01/26/2010: new version 0.5
EDIT 08/20/2009: new version 0.4


Just do it!!!

Here is my small software which will allow you to generate your own Mini-Planet without an expensive photographic equipment.

I like a lot this Big Ben planet

Ok, so you need a PC with a recent OpenGl 2.0 compliant graphic card ... or DirectX 9.0 . Else, you will see the panorama, but it will be impossible to create the expected planet :-(
For my laptop with an Intel GPU, a simple driver update was necessary to make it work. For nVidia go here and for AMD/ATI there.
With Windows, the Microsoft Framework .NET version 2.0 (or more) is a prerequisite. Under Linux or Mac OSX, you will need the last version of Mono.

Download, here:
EDIT 01/26/2010
Version 0.5: binaries, sources
Older versions:
Version 0.4: binaries, sources
Version 0.3: binaries, sources,
Version 0.2: binaries, sources.

You start from your favorite web browser. Go to Google Maps then drag the small orange man on a blue street compliant with Google Street View !

Now, launch my wonderful small software and drag the link call "Link" at the top right of the web page into Street View Mapper. The Url should change...
Click on "1 - Download From Google" and you should get that:

At that point, you will love to click anywhere. So, drag the mouse holding the left button and enjoy the 360° panorama.

If you want to know how it is done, check the "Debug" box. You will quickly understand you are into a sphere with a wallpaper composed of a lot of small photographs. The number of picture depends of the "Street View Zoom" level: 338 images with a zoom set to 5, 91 images with the zoom set to 4, 28 images with the zoom set to 3, 8 images with the zoom set to 2, 2 images with the zoom set to 1, and 1 image with the zoom set to 0).

If you want to dig a little deeper, just click on... "2 - Generate Mini Planet"
Here we are! Marvelous, no?

Choose the place carefully because it doesn't always give good result!

Thanks to Humus for it's great Mini-Planet projection source code.