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.

First acticle

My old french site is here.

I generate some mini-planets with my homebrewed software:

• Le Louvre created from that link
  
  
  

• Time Square created with that
  
  
  

• Under a bridge in Sydney (the link)
  
  
  

In the next message... the small software which will allow you to generate yours :-)