This is the coolest thing I've seen on FA in awhile... O:

I am touched by your kind comment.
And thank you very much for the favourite!

You're welcome! 360 panoramas are awesome apparently! :3

Very cool ^^

Thank you!

It's pretty cool, I'm sure he'll like it when he sees it.

Thanks! I hope he will like it.

You know what's strange? I was very certain I fav'd this back when you uploaded this, but then I look at this and it says I haven't. So strange.

Thank you very much for the favourite!
And also thank you for visiting my gallery from time to time. I am really touched.

fantastic work :3

Thank you very much.

Very beautiful done, I never saw that kind of works from others before :D

Thank you very much! There are actually very few people drawing full spherical panoramic picture. After searching on the Internet, I found maybe 3 or 4 of them.

i LOVE these. fantastic mr rat. =3 your pencil sketches are so awesome. its great. X3

Thank you very much. I did it in less than one hour at the back of an envelope (the first sheet of paper that I could catch) and I used my camera instead of my scanner to digitize it. The AS3 code I used to create this animation is the same old code I developed for my other panoramic pictures.

eitherway, you did a fantastic job. well done!

Straight to FAVORITES! It is awesome!

Thank you very much!

... ça fiche la frousse, ton truc ! Jamais je n'aurais imaginé que je verrais un jour un dessin en 2D comme ça !

Et pourtant j'en ai postés plusieurs sur dA, dont celui-ci en novembre 2011 :
http://alphonselavallee.deviantart......ches-268464084
Inachevé malheureusement, mais qui aurait pu être mon chef d’œuvre une fois fini !

Sinon, merci beaucoup pour le commentaire et le fav'.

De rien...
Autant pour moi : ce truc m'avait totalement échappé... Vu le thème, c'est un projet très intéressant et je serais curieux de le voir terminer !
Comme je crois te l'avoir déjà signalé, comme source d'inspiration, je te conseille certains albums de Tardi
Entre autres le " Trou d'Obus " et sa proposition de modèle en carton à découper ! = >
http://thanagra.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/361.html
http://thanagra.typepad.com/.a/6a01.....5ca839b970c-pi

Coïncidence : je viens d'apprendre qu'on lui a proposé la Légion d'Honneur et qu'il l'a vigoureusement refusée !

Pas mal cet article sur les paper toys ! Merci beaucoup pour le lien.
Sinon, je me demande s'il y a beaucoup de gens qui ont refusé l'Ordre de Léopold ?

Ma foi, je ne me suis jamais intéressé à la question...
Mais d'après les infos trouvées sur le Net, une fois que tu l'as refusée, c'est définitif. On ne te la proposera jamais une deuxième fois...

Looks awesome. Great job

Thanks!

You're welcome

This is very very VERY interesting!
I like it a lot!

I am glad you like it. Panoramic pictures are fun to draw.
Also thank you very much for the favourite!

I am a bit late, sorry, but I take the opportunity to wish you a Happy Birthday!

Thank you very much :)

This looks amazing. It seems like your in it. :D

Actually, you are in it.
Shh... Quiet please, you are in a library!

*saying in quite tone* oh yeah sorry .

these 360's are always your most interesting pics, I just don't know what to think of it, I feel like I'm right there XD

What I like in 360° picture is that you can choose your point of view.
Why should we always look in the same direction ?
When I see a painting, I am often wondering how its counter-shot look like...

This is awesome, though I can get a bit dizzy going through it! Oh, and what a way to bet stuck in books, but it brings plenty of giggles!

Thank you! They are many ways to have fun with books...

Original, bon dessin =)

Merci beaucoup !

Cet effet 3d est des plus réussis !
J'avais jamais vu encore ce type de réalisation.
Franchement pas mal :P

Merci beaucoup !
En fouillant sur Internet, j'ai constaté qu'il y très peu de gens qui font des dessins en "panoramique complète". Mais je suis loin d'être le premier...


PS : Au fait, merci beaucoup pour le "ouatche" ainsi que pour le favoris.

Chapeau bas pour les vue 360° ! C'est à la fois original, très bien réalisé et quelque part encore très novateur ici bas.

Merci infiniment ! Je suis très touché par ce commentaire et par le fait qu'il provienne d'un artiste que j'admire.

This is definitely a master piece. Well done buddy =3

Thank you very much for your nice comment and the favourite!
I will probably post another panoramic picture in my gallery very soon...

This is really fascinating!
It's something that I've been meaning to try to do for some time, and so have been curious as to how it would look if done right. And now that I've seen it in action, I've really got to try!
Kudos!

Thank you very much for your interest.

When I draw a panoramic picture, I usually use small paper pattern to represent the vanishing lines. Here is an example: http://alphonselavallee.deviantart......ture-185805574 To make it short, these vanishing lines correspond to big circles of the sphere represented on an equirectangular projection (I don't have the formula in mind but is is not very difficult to find them with spherical trigonometry). I have also developed a little code in AS3 (using the PaperVision library) that returns the SWF file (I still use Flash, shame on me).

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Thanks for the advice!
That certainly helps on the side of producing the source image (I was wondering whether it would be a single, warped-perspective image, or else several smaller ones stitched together), but first I've got the problem of actually rendering it in a panoramic perspective. I'd be doing this in a rather limited, pseudo-coding program, so I'm not sure yet if it's actually possible.

Which kind of programming language do you know?
Creating a panorama viewer is definitively not impossible.
I am considered as a very bad programmer...

I'm using Multimedia Fusion 2. It's a program made mainly for making 2D games, so there's no real way to do 3D rendering.
Nonetheless, I was able to make a panorama viewer, but it's a real hack-job. It just uses a whole mess of 2D sprites, scaled and rotated to simulate a complete sphere.
Now for the fun part: drawing a panoramic scene!

I can't believe you actually draw these things by hand, though. That seems like a lot to wrap your head around.

Here is the original drawing, done on an envelope: http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/...../imgp5679q.jpg
I didn't have a scanner within easy reach so I took this picture with my camera and I filtered it to obtain a "clean scan" of my sketch.

I have never heard of MMF2 before. It seems interesting. Unfortunately I am currently working under Linux...

Ha, nice. The back of an envelope, as promised.
I managed to plug it into my own viewer without much trouble. Looks pretty close!

MMF2 is a nice program, and I've been using it for many years, but it's kind of been overtaken recently by things such as Unity. But I still love it.
Though I guess I won't be able to show you my finished panorama viewer, 'cause it requires Windows and DirectX and all that.
Ah well.

Thank you. Even if I cannot run your software under my OS, I would be interested by some screen shots (if you don't mind of course).
I will also try to find a simple AS3 code I developed long ago for one of my colleagues who asked for a very basic viewer.
Under Windows (at work), I use FlexSDK (complier) and FlashDevelop (GUI). Under Linux, I use mxmlc (command lines).

Thank you! That would be much appreciated!
There's not really much to screenshot right now, unless you want to see a slightly warped picture, or the spherical grid, heh... I still haven't actually drawn a panoramic picture yet, I'm afraid.

These are incredible!

Man this is so cool... how do you even start doing something like this?

Thank you or the kind comment... In this case, I drew the picture on a sheet of paper (and envelope actually) using some special curve shaped rulers like the ones I use here. In an equirectangular (sphere projection) view, vanishing lines are no more straight but curved like in this example. I hope that it partly answers your question.

And also thank you for the favourite!