Tiny Planet Movies

I dusted off my old iPad 2 the other day. Not been used for many a Moon so the battery was flat. Pleasant surprise - it charged just fine and is holding its charge. I was going through the apps on it and deleting some which no longer worked or I had no use for when I found one I had completely forgotten about. 'Living Planet'. I searched the app store in case there was an update but it doesn't seem to be available any more. Fortunately the original app works just fine and I found I had a copy of it on a newer iPad.
Living Planet is, as far as I can gather, the only app which can take a 30 second movie and turn it into a Tiny Planet or Wormhole video. I just had to have a play with it. First with a cloud timelapse video:

A screenshot from the movie:


The resulting wormhole movie: (cropped to 16:4 ratio)



Next a screenshot from a harvesting video:


The uncropped tiny planet movie:



I was tickled by the way the earth seems to be made to revolve under the combine.

Tiny Planets

Not a lot of note going on hereabouts at the moment, at least probably not of interest to others. After a break of a couple of years I have set up some of my amateur radio gear again. I spend some time listening to what is going on and have the occasional chat with fellow hams around Europe.

Also I got round to reading, books that is. I used to read every night but haven't been able to for many years as my concentration would keep wandering and I would end up re-reading the same bit over and over.  My first love is SciFi and similar. I have just finished Miss Spelled (Witch Cozy Mystery) by Morgana Best. Just couldn't put it down. Twas a brilliant mixture of magic and murder mystery written in the first person. It was a free book from Kobo eBooks. My iPad is loaded with dozens of books I have downloaded from various sources over the past few years. Now I'm looking forward to actually reading some of them. Next will probably be a set of short stories, either John Wyndham or H G Wells as I have both waiting in the wings.

Pleasant surprise. I often hear a Chiff Chaff when we go walkabout round the back of the church. Today, for the first time, I heard one near the bottom of my lane. Couldn't see it though. As we strolled along the lane it kept moving.

Saw the first garden damsel flies today. One male blue tail and one female though they were at opposite ends of the garden.

I wrote the following over a year ago but never got round to publishing it.

As you are probably aware I love playing with apps which manipulate photographs.
I took this photo to see what the tiny planet apps would make of it:



Standard tiny planet view, from two different apps;





Tunnel view:



Crystal ball view:



Back to tiny planet to give a different aspect on a Sparrowhawk:



Well, I enjoyed seeing what would happen to a couple of bog standard photos anyway.