Squares that Look Round: Transforming Spherical Images

05/04/2016

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by   Saul Schleimer, et al.

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We propose Möbius transformations as the natural rotation and scaling tools for editing spherical images. As an application we produce spherical Droste images. We obtain other self-similar visual effects using rational functions, elliptic functions, and Schwarz-Christoffel maps.