![]() In the following years, Lloyd teamed up with a group of passionate Flickr users in order to crunch “the tricky mathematics needed to revive the Peirce Quincuncial, a very strange world map that produces charmingly topsy-turvy photographs many people describe as having an Alice in Wonderland quality”. I had a lot of fun roaming my city, hanging the ball in unlikely places and making QTVR panoramas.”ĭriven by the fundamental belief that “a principal strength of computer graphics is its ability to show us the world in a way previously unattainable” Lloyd worked on the Ornament plug-in, complemented it with a Graphical User Interface and expanded its capabilities by adding a great deal of projection types heavily inspired by cartography and the notion of ‘conformality’. It untwisted the reflection into an equirectangular format. If I could digitally straighten out the reflection, I could produce a basic spherical photo without dropping $20,000 on a Panoscan.” ![]() “I suppose Flexify’s story started around Christmas 2000 when I noticed the reflection in a silver-ball tree ornament contained the ball’s entire environment, not just the half on the side facing me. You can get this plug-in from Flaming Pear, where you can either download a free demo or purchase the full version.įlexify 2 is the brainchild of Lloyd Burchill, a graphics software developer and connoisseur of pathological eclectica and, as Lloyd told me, there’s a really interesting story behind the whole concept: ![]() Flexify 2 is definitely my favourite Photoshop plug-in and a must have for all those amateur photographers who want to take their panoramic images one step further.
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