On 16 Nov., 06:25, Syv Ritch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/15/11, JohnPW <[email protected]> wrote: >
> > I've only recently experimented with this myself. But my initial > > thought is, "Do you want a mosaic or a pano?" > > Actually, it really sounds like you might want a linear pano rather > > than a mosaic. Or possibly a series of partial panos joined into a > > linear pano? > > I want one photo of the whole street, what you would call a "linear > pano". Never heard of that expression before, but it makes sense. Have a look at http://wiki.panotools.org/Stitching_a_photo-mosaic John has explained what the two modes are: panoramas are taken from a single point, and mosaics are of planar (2D) scenes (graffiti, mosaics, flloors, maps..). Why just these two? Why not 3D scenes from different viewpoints? Because only these two modes aren't troubled by parallax, see http://wiki.panotools.org/Parallax If you're taking images of houses in a street, chances are you'll not just have a single long flat facade but individual houses with stuff like front lawns, trees, fences, gaps between houses etc.. You just can't take matching images of these features from different viewpoints, and therefore you can't stitch them automatically. To still get what you want, you can use special hardware like a line scan camera (or simulate one) - or you can blend your images manually so that the parallactic problems are less visible, which starts with carefully selecting the positions for individual shots, which is a specific technique in itself, have a look at http://panospace.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/linear-panoramas-mosaic-tutorial/ You'll see that the subject chosen was quite planar, and even then it took some careful work to get it stitched all right. With individual houses like in your case chances are the parallactic differences will be too big to retouch. Best of luck Kay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
