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Photos courtesy of flickr user gadl and licensed under Creative Commons

Browsing some random searches on Spezify I came across some of these cool pictures. Investigating on flickr, I found these are created using stereographic reprojections of equirectangular panoramas to create tiny planets! Quite a few people have done these, but Alexandre Duret-Lutz (“gadl“) has some particularly nice examples – and, if you like the look of them, he provides how-to info on his Wee Planets page. They reminded me of both the planets encountered by the Little Prince on his travels and the SuperForest Humanifesto.

“The Environment is everything that disappears when you close your eyes. If you want to improve it, you must begin with what you see and encounter every single day of your life.”

What we see around us is our planet that we can take care of as the little prince does Asteroid B612:

“when you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care”

“it is only with the heart one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye”

If you’ve never read The Little Prince, I would second SuperForester Chris’s recommendation - its Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s classic tale of an aviator stranded in the desert who encounters a small prince visiting from the stars and learns about friendship and human nature. You can catch the whole thing online, charming illustrations and all, here.
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