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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Pimping Hyperlapse

Teehan+Lax's pop Hyperlapse creates animated Street View drives for whatsoever road that has Google Maps Street View information available. The code for Hyperlapse is available on GitHub and has proved a source of inspiration for a number of Google Maps API developers.


Ecolapse is a overnice extension of the Hyperlapse library. Using Ecolapse you lot tin practise an animated Street View drive amongst a really clever overhead 'small world' effect. Ecolapse distorts the Google Street View imagery to portray an overhead sentiment rather than the normal Google Maps landscape view.

You tin practise your ain animated Ecolapse drives only yesteryear dropping ii map markers onto a Google Map, to betoken the commencement in addition to halt of your journey. When the animation is created you lot convey the pick to intermission the animation, zoom inward in addition to out of the Street View in addition to purpose your keyboard arrow keys to scroll through the road frame yesteryear frame.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World


Skoda has used the pop Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to practise a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.

The Rapid Spaceback website lets you lot sentiment a number of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upwards the activeness the site has added a number of filters that you lot tin apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin also pick out from a number of dissimilar soundtracks to accompany your drive.

The site includes a number of prepared routes from famous locations some the world. You tin also practise your ain road yesteryear selecting a starting dot in addition to a finish on a Google Map.


HyperlapseMB uses the depth information hidden inward Street View information to add together a overnice motility blur number to a Street View animated drive. The motility blur eliminates a lot of the jerkiness inward the resulting animation, which is caused yesteryear stitching a sequence of yet images together. The outcome of adding motility blur is a much smoother animation.

HyperlapseMB applies the motility blur number earlier the Street View animation tin move played. Therefore HyperlapseMB is a chip slower than the master copy Hyperlapse, but it is worth the wait. Not solely is the animation much smoother but the controls inward the side-panel allow you lot to conform the sentiment inward the animation in addition to fifty-fifty spin the animation around.