Can someone un-swirl this pic please?

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Pretty pretty please?

There's a cookie in it for you...

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you need top top programs for that... the police have them, take the cookie to them and ask

actually, interpol can do it
 
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picture above is about as good as I can get it using photoshop, yours is a bit better though. Need something where you can set the thickness of each part of the swirl then it would be easier would still take some time though.
 
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The trick is to reverse the algorithm of the swirl effect in Photoshop. Unfortunately you need pretty much the exact settings reversed to get a decent image.
 
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The trick is to reverse the algorithm of the swirl effect in Photoshop. Unfortunately you need pretty much the exact settings reversed to get a decent image.

Yep. The image's aspect ratio has been changed and it's also been cropped post-twirl, and both of these affect the results, so it's pretty much imposssibl to do it perfectly.
 
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Ok, that can be reversed, but the problem is that it is a "composite" effect, it is more than just a "twirl", it is 2 or more twirls together.

It probably possible in photoshop somehow to use actions/automate to produce say, 100 different slight counter twirls to produce 100 images, and then on each of them produce another 100 twirls, that would produce 10,000 images but it would be pretty easy to visually see which ones are the clearest. The main problem is that the original mapping would have damaged the quality of the picture so it may be fuzzy when it is finally untwirled, if that is even possible.

EDIT : My estimation for the picture is... a car.
 
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Lol...nice try! Seeing as you tried so hard... In photoshop, flip it horizontal then filter, distort, spiral. Might work haha...if it does, don't tell anyone

Ooooh....The sneaky wee nyaff!

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