The maths of spherical video (aka "360 camera")

Channel:
United Kingdom Stand-up Maths
Subscribers:
1,320,000
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gRcRd_rHs


Game:
Spherical (1989)
Duration: 11:00
149,175 views
3,605

Watch in spherical video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHncaEJVZco

Check out the site for Henry’s book, it has loads of interactive 3D models and stuff you can 3D print:
http://www.3dprintmath.com/

BOOK ON US AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Mathematics-Printing-Henry-Segerman/dp/142142035X?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-20

BOOK ON UK AMAZON
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visualizing-Mathematics-Printing-Henry-Segerman/dp/142142035X/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21

The Segerman channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/henryseg

Henry’s Shapeways page. You might want to get your bankcard out while you’re clicking to save some time. So may cool things.
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/henryseg

Here is the camera Henry uses, the “Ricoh Theta S”.
https://theta360.com/

CAMERA ON US AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-Theta-Digital-Camera-Black/dp/B014US3FQI/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21

CAMERA ON UK AMAZON
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricoh-Theta-S-Camera-Black/dp/B014US3FQI?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-20

Henry also wrote a paper with Saul Schleimer “Squares that Look Round: Transforming Spherical Images” which contains all the details you need.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01396

Finally, here is Henry Segerman on Github, but if you’re the kind of person who has any interest of looking at his code on Github then you can find it with about five seconds of googling so I don’t know why I’m even providing this link:
https://github.com/henryseg

Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright

MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
Website: http://standupmaths.com/
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Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/



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Other Statistics

Spherical Statistics For Stand-up Maths

At present, Stand-up Maths has 187,190 views spread across 2 videos for Spherical, and less than an hour worth of Spherical videos were uploaded to his channel. This makes up 1.29% of the content that Stand-up Maths has uploaded to YouTube.