Further Reading
- Examples of panoramic imagery abound at Flickr.com; search for “stereographic” or “equirectangular.”
- Carlos Furuti maintains an excellent website cataloguing properties of various cartographic projections: visit www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/CartIndex/cartlndex.html
- The geometry of stereographic projection, and in particular the fact that circles map to circles, is explained beautifully in chapter three of Tristan Needham's book, Visual Complex Analysis (Oxford University Press, 1999).
- If you want to try making your own panoramas, the (free, open source) Hugin stitching software is a good place to start. Smartphone apps such as Autostitch and Photosynth are gaining popularity and are very simple to use.