Games Like Little Big Planet For Pc

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TheLittle Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupry, is a story about a traveler from a distant asteroid. It's simple and sad and poignant and memorable.[1]For another take on the Petit Prince, scroll down to the last section of this wonderful piece by Mallory Ortberg. It's ostensibly a children's book, but it's hard to pin down who the intended audience is. In any case, it certainly has found an audience; it's among the best-selling books in history.

We got our first confirmation of what asteroids looked like in 1971, when Mariner 9 visited Mars and snapped pictures of Phobos and Deimos.[2]Here's a picture of Phobos looking like the archetypical asteroid. The archived images from the mission are at the NASA Space Science Data Center, but strangely, the NSSDC refers readers to someone's personal Tripod page to browse the actual images. These moons, believed to be captured asteroids,[3]Ironically, while Phobos and Deimos look like asteroids, new research suggests they're not. See Craddock, Robert A.. "Are Phobos And Deimos The Result Of A Giant Impact?". Icarus (2010) solidified the modern image of asteroids as cratered potatoes.

Before the 1970s, it was common for science fiction to assume small asteroids would be round, like planets.[4]Not always; plenty of people had a good idea of what they would look like. And there were stranger ideas ...

The Little Prince took this a step further, imagining an asteroid as a tiny planet with gravity, air, and a rose. There's no point in trying to critique the science here, because (1) it's not a story about asteroids, and (2) it opens with a parable about how foolish adults are for looking at everything too literally.

So rather than trying to take things away from the story, let's see what strange new pieces science can add. If there really were a superdense asteroid with enough surface gravity to walk around on, it would have some pretty surprising properties.

If the asteroid has a radius of 1.75 meters, then in order to have Earth-like gravity at the surface, it would need to have a mass of about 500 million tons. This is roughly equal to the combined mass of every human on Earth.

If you stood on the surface, you'd experience tidal forces. Your feet would feel heavier than your head, which you'd feel as a gentle stretching sensation. It would feel like you were stretched out on a curved rubber ball, or were lying on a merry-go-round with your head near the center.

The escape velocity at the surface would be about 5 meters per second. That's slower than a sprint, but still pretty fast. As a rule of thumb, if you can't dunk a basketball, you wouldn't be able to escape by jumping straight up.

Tidal forces would act on you in several ways. If you reach your arm down toward the planet, it would be pulled much harder than the rest of you. And if you reach down with one arm, the rest of you gets pushed upward, which means other parts of your body feel even less gravity. Effectively, every part of your body would be trying to go in a different orbit.

These types of orbits were investigated in an interesting paper by Radu D. Rugescu and Daniele Mortari.[6]Rugescu, Radu D., Mortari, Daniele, "Ultra Long Orbital Tethers Behave Highly Non-Keplerian and Unstable", WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 2008, pp. 87-94. Their simulations showed that large, elongated objects follow strange patterns around their central bodies. Even their centers of mass don't move in the traditional ellipses; some adopt pentagonal orbits, while others spin chaotically and crash into the planet.

Landscape images work best. The photo should have a foreground, a horizon, and a sky. If you have trees or buidings in the image that go out the top of the image it may not work as well. It is all experimental, so you should try images like that, but it does seem to work best with images that look like the one below.

This image was chosen because it has all of those elements; the river is in the foreground, there are buildings along the horizon, and there is a sky. There is also nothing going out the top of the image. As the photo is going to connect from one end to another, it has to be an image that has similar ends.

Make sure you are on the Background Layer, and select the crop tool (keyboard shortcut is C). Click on the image to bring up the cropping frame. Grab the right edge marker, and drag it it to the right to enlarge the frame to twice the size of the image (watch the number as you drag, go until you get to 200%). Look at the following image.

Figure out where you want the images to meet in the middle. Sometimes overlapping them can make it look a little better. You will need to crop the image to remove some of the extra area that you created earlier.

To make the sphere, the image needs to be square, so go to the top menu and click Image > Image Size. When the window pops up, you need to unlock the part that automatically changes the height when you change the width (maintains the proportions). Click the lock (chain) icon to unlock it. Make the width the same as the height, and press okay.

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For this tutorial you can download all the images I used from here. I actually bracketed the shots (at 0EV, -2EV and +2EV) giving us 3 lots of 7 so that we can make the planet in HDR. This is what they look like:

I saved the pto and strated a new project, applied template. Loaded the new shots, and exported the panorama picture.

And there is a question.

I have to save this a second pto file, and start a new project, apply the second pto as base for third panorama?

Or delete the images from the second (template based proj) and load the third series of shots? And then stitch them?

When you add your image to Hugin, set it to equirectangular and set the field of view to 360 degrees. You should then be able to switch to stereographic and pitch by 90 degrees. I just tried and it seems to work fine.

Great tutorial! As a Hugin newbie it took me a while to get a result with version 2013. I started off with an equirectangular image taken with a Ricoh Theta, and so no stitching was necessary. Steps: -ptx/qv54ms1-DHY/bA1dI8o4vYMJ

When I shoot the pano, the drone shows it already like a tiny planet, but if I download it on my pc it is like distorted flat panorama. Also, it is in jpeg, the raw files are avaible in another folder but they are not stitched.

Then I noticed that the jpeg pano stitched by the drone is in 2:1 proportion, and there is a fake sky added (it can't shoot upwards because of the props), so i reseized the canvas to 2:1 and added more sky, and this is the result:

I wonder if you are expecting too much from a one click solution? I managed this with one click (2010 Shanghai) but I would have experimented with the starting end points, as well as aspect ratio and vertical position before applying Polar Coordinates. If you are chasing a more controlled result, then consider taking multiple steps to achieve it. Think in terms of a composite.

If anyone could give you a better answer, then it would be Russell Brown, who has some excellent, and really quite clever, tips and tricks for processing DJI /Go Pro panoramas. Think of the links below as a starting point, and work your way through the videos on the side bar. I thought I knew how to do this stuff, but I learned a ton watching these.

By applying the effect to the jpeg pano made by the drone, I obtained the wanted result in one click, and the raw images are exactly the same image only separated in more files. The problem is in the way that Photoshop stitches the image, it seems that the bottom part is cropped and missing, so the solution may be in using another program to stitch. You have the same problem in your image... That's not a wrong thing but it's simply not what I want in this case.

In photoshop, I opened the raw stitched panorama, then added over it the jpeg pano, with 50% opacity. Then I lined up the raw image with the jpeg, and ended up with a blank space at the bottom. Then proceded as before with the effect: this is the result.

the intro works fine, and the tout does too, but when i come back to the start-pamo, i'm in fisheye-mode. Do i need 2 seperate xmls for the first pano? one for the start, and one for a later comeback, which leaves out the intro?

because the action is onstart all you have to do is give the pano something to do before that. when reloading the first pano add a dummy action that sets a parameter to something it already is. becuase that action is running when the first pano is reloaded it will not fire off again. i used an action to set the details to 32 to override the onstart when reloading.

now the funny thing is: if i come back bei map-link, i get the whole intro with waiting-screen, like if i start for the first time. If i come back bei normal hotspot-link, i only get the intro part, zooming in fisheye-mode from the last position...

I'm a new user of KRpano and I like to use little planet into for my tours, I use the code that was given by VN2009 but it seems something wrong because the tour doesn't run and all I see is a black screen,

Your code is wrong.

The little planet code given by VN2009 is right, the problem is that

1- you dont know how call a action

2- with several panos you need make scene by scene but when you have just one you dont need scene on your code.

I tested on my server and is OK.

You can make that way.

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