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Drag the hero on to the map somewhere and he will land somewhere with streetview, which gets turned into 8bit, hilarious.

by loucal 15y ago

mjn 15y ago
That's pretty great. I've wanted for a while to find a way to layer image effects onto Google Street View, to be able to move around the world in a sort of alternate processed reality. But afaik, there's no straightfoward way to add a filter like that unless you're Google. There's an image API, but the resolution is only 640x480. There's an undocumented image API with higher-res images, but you'll get banned if you make more than occasional usage of it. Perhaps it'd be possible to do it via a browser extension that renders the effects locally? [edit: Just thought of one possible route. There's a WebGL beta for Street View; perhaps you could add effects by injecting some WebGL shader code, given appropriate local security permissions?] So far I've been just experimenting with grabbing a few hundred images from the undocumented API and applying effects locally. This is the result of one experiment (hit [reload] at the top/right for new images): http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/ http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/
- loucal 15y ago
  nice! I really like that. Thanks for posting this.
jianshen 15y ago
This is fun for looking at street art: http://g.co/maps/ary5t http://g.co/maps/ary5t screenshot: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6886373098_84a16330a1_o.png http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6886373098_84a16330a1_o.p...
- clebio 15y ago
  Nice! This reminded me of the murals in SF: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3481+16th+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.764398,-122.430427&spn=0.001694,0.003138&sll=37.764398,-122.430427&sspn=0.001703,0.003138&oq=3481+16&t=8&hnear=3481+16th+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94114&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.764398,-122.430427&panoid=fX4N18ijJdWCv7YU6E5PSQ&cbp=12,352.18,,0,0.15 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3481+16th+Street,+San+Francisc...
sad_panda 15y ago
Just figured that out. You have to disable MapsGL for that to work.

Drag the hero on to the map somewhere and he will land somewhere with streetview, which gets turned into 8bit, hilarious.

by loucal 15y ago

Drag the hero on to the map somewhere and he will land somewhere with streetview, which gets turned into 8bit, hilarious.

mjn 15y ago

That's pretty great. I've wanted for a while to find a way to layer image effects onto Google Street View, to be able to move around the world in a sort of alternate processed reality. But afaik, there's no straightfoward way to add a filter like that unless you're Google. There's an image API, but the resolution is only 640x480. There's an undocumented image API with higher-res images, but you'll get banned if you make more than occasional usage of it. Perhaps it'd be possible to do it via a browser extension that renders the effects locally? [edit: Just thought of one possible route. There's a WebGL beta for Street View; perhaps you could add effects by injecting some WebGL shader code, given appropriate local security permissions?] So far I've been just experimenting with grabbing a few hundred images from the undocumented API and applying effects locally. This is the result of one experiment (hit [reload] at the top/right for new images): http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/ http://www.kmjn.org/projects/cyanocph/

loucal 15y ago
nice! I really like that. Thanks for posting this.

jianshen 15y ago

This is fun for looking at street art: http://g.co/maps/ary5t http://g.co/maps/ary5t screenshot: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6886373098_84a16330a1_o.png http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6886373098_84a16330a1_o.p...

clebio 15y ago
Nice! This reminded me of the murals in SF: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3481+16th+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en&ll=37.764398,-122.430427&spn=0.001694,0.003138&sll=37.764398,-122.430427&sspn=0.001703,0.003138&oq=3481+16&t=8&hnear=3481+16th+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94114&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.764398,-122.430427&panoid=fX4N18ijJdWCv7YU6E5PSQ&cbp=12,352.18,,0,0.15 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3481+16th+Street,+San+Francisc...

sad_panda 15y ago

Just figured that out. You have to disable MapsGL for that to work.