Can someone un-swirl this pic please?

penski · 2 Jun 2008 at 09:39

Pretty pretty please?

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

*n

Izi · 2 Jun 2008 at 11:52

penski said:
Pretty pretty please?

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

*n

Dont think its possible. Tried in photoshop and failed.

tres · 2 Jun 2008 at 11:55

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

actually, interpol can do it

Inquisitor · 2 Jun 2008 at 12:21

I tried, but I'm afraid I can't do much better than this:

It's a car, and quite an old one by the looks of it.

Rhys · 2 Jun 2008 at 13:10

pretty good result. What did you use to unswirl it?

Exentia · 2 Jun 2008 at 13:12

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.

Slogan · 2 Jun 2008 at 13:18

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.

Inquisitor · 2 Jun 2008 at 13:22

Slogan said:
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.

penski · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:03

Gah - it's the new 'secret project' of a guy I know...Trying to work out what it is

*n

4T5 · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:07

I'd say an early Mk3 Tina estate but the wheels are throwing me off.

Prophet · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:09

Nova or Mk1 Astra?

MikeHunt79 · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:14

There's so many filters in PS, which category is "swirl" in?

EDIT: Distort - Twirl (I didn't do very well tho)

paradigm · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:19

MikeHunt79 said:
There's so many filters in PS, which category is "swirl" in?

Distort > Twirl

Tripnologist · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:26

Didn't it take Interpol (or something similar) a couple years getting the picture of some child porn guy unswirled?

platypus · 2 Jun 2008 at 15:28

You need some seriously sophisticated (and not usually commercially available) software to do that. Photoshop won't cut it.

Shoseki · 2 Jun 2008 at 16:12

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.

penski · 2 Jun 2008 at 16:37

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!

*n

Inquisitor · 2 Jun 2008 at 17:56

platypus said:
You need some seriously sophisticated (and not usually commercially available) software to do that. Photoshop won't cut it.

Why would you actually need it though?

Una · 2 Jun 2008 at 18:04

Inquisitor said:
Why would you actually need it though?

In case someone goes through your photo collection, swirls them and you got no backups?

whitecrook · 2 Jun 2008 at 19:32

Is it a lada riva estate? wheels look a bit off though