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Not sure if this is old news but found quite a nice walkthrough for looping images on the desktop screen while looking through you tube. May not be worthy of its own thread but I thought it was pretty cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6DO...eature=channel
 

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Hi. The video is new ( posted the 23th October ) and ... works great !

I try do make my personal 4 desktop ... amazing .

see you too







 

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I was hoping it was a walkthrough on how to MAKE them. Its hardly rocket science to just crop an existing one to the right size. (although I could be wrong as I thought the N900 allowed you to use a single image not have to split it into four, which is a little more tricky)

Knowing the right term to search for to find existing ones (equirectangular) is helpful though, but I am going to have to search further on how to actually make them myself.

Actually, you do not need equirectangular images for the N900 but I do not know if there is a specific term for a seamless looping panoramic image. They are however a LOT easier to make than an equirectangular image though.

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Originally Posted by davedickson View Post
Not sure if this is old news but found quite a nice walkthrough for looping images on the desktop screen while looking through you tube. May not be worthy of its own thread but I thought it was pretty cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6DO...eature=channel
thanks for the link! I made that video
 

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Originally Posted by thenokiablog View Post
thanks for the link! I made that video
Great video ... and also

great MAC ... ... and also

great Photoschop !!

Thanks !
 

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Originally Posted by thenokiablog View Post
thanks for the link! I made that video
Hi! I am pretty new on here so I wasn't sure if this had been covered, either on here or somewhere else on the site, but I thought it was so useful I had to post it. Nice job on the video as well!
 

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The posts regarding the N900 in Italy have been moved to their own thread. Please continue discussion there.
 
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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
although I could be wrong as I thought the N900 allowed you to use a single image not have to split it into four, which is a little more tricky
It can be a pain if you do it with a GUI, but that's the kind of thing command line tools are made for. Assuming you have saved your 3200x480 image as full.png, converting it to 4 contiguous 800x480 JPEGs is as simple as

Code:
for x in 0 1 2 3; do pngtopnm full.png | pnmcut $[x*800] 0 800 480 | cjpeg > bg-$x.jpg ; done
with Netpbm, or even:

Code:
convert -crop 800x480 full.png bg.jpg
with ImageMagick.
 
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the video that the nokia guy...sorry cant remember his finnish name...

stated in dubai that it was just a png 3200x480. he showed switching to a supermario bros. one.
 
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if you dont have a mac, i did this.

found the pic i wanted, resized it to 3200x480

went to:

http://picslice.com/?m=slice#p

sliced it 4x1

then click on the link in the bottom left to download a zip of all the pix.

i have included 2 to show you.

i have more but was limited in the upload size. i did castlevania as well.
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