Panorama Sculpture

A 360 degree panorama created by slotting and fitting together 60 "mini-photos"; kind of a new take on stitching photos together.

It's a close relative of an early version of George W. Hart's Millennium Bookball sculpture - it's modular kirigami based on the Pentagonal Hexecontahedron.

The source photo is Seb Przd's panorama The beginning of the sculpture taken before the assembly of Hart's Compass Points at the Gathering for Gardner 8 this past spring.

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Victor De la Rocha, Colima. says:

Excellent work, I love it!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

En Why See says:

This is more than fantastic. Is that George Hart in the picture? Do you ROBO?
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

dmswart says:

I believe it is.

I wish I ROBO'd, however I couldn't justify the expense. This is done with IKEA scissors of all things.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Seb Przd says:

You do have an Escheresque hand. Thanks for so sublimely transformed my panorama.

Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

dmswart says:

Seb The pleasure's all mine.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

! Polyhedra ! says:

This photo sculpture is absolutely great!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

alexispz says:

Wow ! Wonderful work... No glue or stitches ? Could you call that stitching then ? ;-)
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Luĭs Eduardo says:

Muy linda la foto
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

jmven says:

I like this one a lot
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Seb Przd says:

And already in Explore!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Sharon Pazner says:

Very cool.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

manuspaze2 [deleted] says:

nice work!!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

diceliving says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called A to Z and all things flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

` ®© ROBERTO CARBONI says:

Stunning,realy excellent .congrats
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

snorrem says:

fantastc !
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

kroo2u says:

Amazing - I thought it was some sort of mirror ball at first.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Manυ says:

Somehow I had missed this. Wow! Really great, yet again.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Robbert van der Steeg says:

Very cool, nice done
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dmswart says:

Thanks Robbie, but there's no photoshopping here. At least not anything significant.
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Cristian+ says:

Amazing!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

schimkent says:

Oh what a beautiful and creative idea. I haven't seen this before. Amazing how you were able to get it with scissors and glue.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

dmswart says:

No glue - a few more details about the construction can be found here
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

brotherdenis says:

This is amazing...
Question:
I'm trying to figure out the pattern. You obviously took a picture, but then you cut and arranged the pieces in a pattern group of 6 I'm not able to duplicate. A Head in is one row, but the legs are in another.
Like the pattern of the globe. The continents are not together. you broke them apart in a symetric way in ordre to make the globe. That's what I'm not understanding.

Can you please help with a pattern.

Many thanks

Denis
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

dmswart says:

Denis, the pattern is a pentagonal hexecontahedron. So the rectangles are arranged in twelve groups of five. The location of continents or people with respect to the rectangles is merely a consequence of the geometry of the polyhedron and not by design.

When I printed them out, the arrangement of the rectangles into 6 rows by 10 columns is really just an "arrangement of convenience" for manufacturing purposes.

To accomplish this sculpture, I wrote my own software. I didn't just "take a picture" though: the source imagery is a 360-degree panorama. I hesitate to provide my own software because it is not a self-contained solution. It would cause more frustation and waste a lot of time.

If you're interested in doing this yourself, Start by following the links in the descriptions, Then look into:
* the pentagonal hexecontahedron, (or your favourite polyhedron)
* gnomonic projections
* "modular kirigami" as described by George Hart.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Limo320 says:

Haha... sehr geile Idee,Respekt.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

young_kurt_a says:

Dave, I want to make my own spherical object using my family Christmas picture for this year. I think it would make an awesome Christmas gift and ornament. I think I get the gist, but I know I can't just cut up my photo and put it together because the middle must be made up of more photos than the top and bottom. Do you have software that does this for you or do you have to manually edit your photo? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Kurt
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

dmswart says:

Hi Kurt

Manually would be very difficult!
Software of course helps but I personally don't have anything easy to use that's available for you.

However here is a product by Flaming Pear software called Flexify. I don't know if it can be stand-alone, it does come as a plugin for Paint-Shop-Pro, or Photoshop. (If you try it and like the free demo, consider buying it!)

Anyways, flexify is built to take spherical panoramas as an input, spherical panoramas cover the entire visible sphere up,down,left,right,front,back. If this is what you have then great!

Although I'm guessing that you have a standard rectangular picture - it might still work if you try your picture as input, but I can't guarantee it.

An entirely different approach might be decoupage. Look up decoupage on the internet for other people's projects.

* It pretty much involves brushing paper onto a sphere with glue.
* You can buy blank glass ornaments at a craft store.
* The paper has to be thin
* the paper should be printed with a laser printer (ink jet ink will run)
* and the image should really only cover a small portion of the sphere - but hey that might allow space for multiple photos.

Good luck
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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