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I saw these the other day and wondered—could you make these programmatically with a drone? Have it lift off, tilt downwards, and stitch them together...

• terminado 10y ago
  I get the sense that that's exactly how these were created. The transition from ground view to aerial view gives no hint of a full-sized aircraft's ideal lift-off point. These are probably all hand-stitched though, with photo manipulation tools, and not programmatically generated, since it seems to be a one-off project inspired by the surrounding environment and terrain. It's likely possible to program a utility that creates these, as a follow-up phase to the general concept.
  • TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
    From the article: Using his skills in 3-D animation and visual effects to assemble multiple overhead shots into seamless photographs
    • mannykannot 10y ago
      The foreground shots are not overhead shots, which is why a drone seems the most (if not only) plausible source for the raw images.
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  • mannykannot 10y ago
    > The transition from ground view to aerial view gives no hint of a full-sized aircraft's ideal lift-off point. Especially the one of the Blue Mosque (not in the original article, but from a collection it links to.) That's what convinced me it had to be a drone, at least for the oblique shots.
• svantana 10y ago
  Yes, and you can even get similar results (of room-scale objects) by mis-using the panorama photo feature in the iphone camera app. Presumably if you strapped it to a drone with a rotatable arm, you could get something like this.
• jackcarter 10y ago
  Couldn't you just as easily use a balloon on a tether?
  • robotresearcher 10y ago
    A modern hobby drone is much easier to use than a balloon on a tether. They really are pretty amazing as camera platforms.