Gods View – Polar Panoramic Video

Time for another schoolproject I did recently.
TIME BASED – “Everything flows” is a famous quote from Heraclitus. With this he describes reality as a constant change and as such a reality impossible to grab. Search for possibilities to express this time and space flow.

Gods View – Polar Panoramic Video from Valentijn Kint on Vimeo.

I took the popular polar panorama technique and added time to create a Gods View. Well a light version that is :)

I originally intended to make a walk that ended where I started, starting in the morning ending in the morning to have a closed cyclical loop. As is everything in life. Day – Night, Life – Death – Birth, Winter – Spring – Summer – Autumn… To cover up my tripod I wanted a clock, that ticked in an constant speed, around this clock the world revolves. The speed of panoramas wouldn’t be the same speed. Suggesting le temps et la durée, objective vs. subjective time.
I call it Gods View (Light), cause it’s a view that show both what’s in front and behind at the same time.

Unfortunately, because of time issues I couldn’t complete it. I haven’t got panoramic video hardware. Don’t even have a fisheye. So it was a stop motion technique, 15.000+ fotos and many hours rotating that panohead, freezing my hand off till the point I couldn’t feel my finger pressing the shutter. Stitching went quick using a PTGui and a good template.

I planned to polish it up when I had more time, but a crashing hdd decided otherwise. I’m glad I had a backup of some .mov exports, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to show you. Hope you like it!

Update
I remembered emailing a sample to one my friends. Thank you Gmail for your unlimited storage! :)
This the image I had in mind with the clock.

Tags: equirectangular, panoramas, school

One Response to “Gods View – Polar Panoramic Video”

1. Axel says:

   April 11, 2008 at 13:04

   Very nice. Cool concept and nice technique.
   Some polishing up wouldn’t be bad though. ;)