What Ben Goldacre’s written about in 2009.
It’s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they’d got the figure wrong by 1000%.
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More on mini-worlds, or polar panoramas as they’re known. I’ve just found a flickr group for them.
These are wonderful images. I’ve tried making images like this, in fact there’s a MiniWorlds page on this site with my five.
I found the instructions in the 27 February 2009 edition of MacUser UK. In short, the instructions are:
- Start with a panoramic image
- In Photoshop, resize it to a square image (I’m using 5000×5000)
- Invert the image (rotate 180 degrees)
- Apply the Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates with the “Rectangular to Polar” option selected
- Spend the rest of the time cleaning up the joins!
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