Typical show a fixed scene changing at an accelerated rate over time. Time-lapse photographers accomplish this by shooting photos at regular intervals (anywhere from every few seconds to every half hour) and combining the frames into a movie file. Panning time-lapse movies add motorized mounts to the set-up, so the final movie slowly pans across a scene. Murphy has taken this technique one step further by editing the final movie so that it creates a full, 360-degree panoramic view.

Murphy shot two movies, one with a Canon A590 and the other with a --both point-and-shoot cameras. He installed the (Canon Hack Development Kit) software on the cameras, and programmed them to take photographs every five seconds. The cameras were mounted on a ($250) which slowly rotated the camera 360 degrees. A full rotation took 60 to 90 minutes.

To create the final product, Murphy spliced 12 views of the scene together, each section playing the same video at slightly different times. , which was shot outside of a San Francisco cafe at night.

Murphy's other , and a preview of his very cool project can be found on his website.

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