Seems like that's what we told him already. Try not to hold it against us that we are enjoying a conversation on theoretical solutions after the question is answered. :-) Nice example though (but again, it is row houses, and Syv never really got back to us on wether it was row houses or a more suburban situation.) --John
On Nov 26, 10:12 am, Tom Sharpless <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, let's get real > > Syv wants to make a picture of one block of houses, not build an > experimental slit camera or invent a new technology. > > He needs to take a series of overlapping photos from the other side of > the street, each one pointing more or less straight at the house > fronts opposite. Then use Hugin's mosaic mode to align/warp them -- > with control points only on the plane of the house fronts! -- and a > lot of hand masking in Photoshop to blend them. Hand masking is > needed because the seam lines must be placed where the change of > perspective is not noticeable; and it allows you to deal with things > like trees, poles, etc in front of the houses. In fact by taking > enough pictures with both vertical and horizontal displacements, one > can often make poles and wires disappear, but there is no way to > automate that. > > I'm not saying it couldn't be done with a slit camera -- it has been > done often with video slit scans, but the image quality is hardly > 'architectural'. Or a sweep camera. But both of those approaches are > technically harder than the tried-and-true mosaicing method, which > has been in regular use since the renaissance, > > Here is a brilliant modern example by Michael > Koller:http://www.seamlesscity.com/city%20_scene4.html > > -- Tom > > On Nov 22, 2:17 am, Ian Tindale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > These days I usually set that camera to pan in the direction of right to > > left, with the camera held portrait. > > > On 21 November 2011 21:16, JohnPW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That's interesting. It looks like it uses the camera's orientations > > > sensor to select the angle of the strip of image it captures. As you > > > turn the camera the strips stay vertical to the finished panorama. Did > > > you sweep from right to left? > > > It would be interesting to hack the software (but don't expect me > > > to! :-) > > > > On Nov 21, 1:48 am, Ian Tindale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Try this one, and its neighbouring pictures, where I intentionally > > > twisted > > > > the camera around the roll axis as I swept it across an arc: > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/iantindale/6066091512/in/photostream/ > > > > > On 21 November 2011 07:28, JohnPW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > That's pretty fun. > > > > > Notice how it tried to resolve the parallax problems. It locked onto > > > > > the front surface of the the building pretty well, but had a hard time > > > > > with distant objects "enclosed" by the building. The objects seen > > > > > through the open door and objects reflected in the window glass appear > > > > > partial and repeated rather than being sewn together. > > > > > You can also see the width of the images it collects to make the > > > > > panorama. They're pretty narrow. > > > > > > On Nov 18, 1:21 am, Ian Tindale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > As an experiment, I shot this by abusing the Sony Sweep Panorama > > > feature: > > > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/iantindale/6241529419/—I held the camera > > > > > > level and simply walked along in a straight line, pointing the > > > > > > camera > > > > > > sideways, starting at one end of that room and ending at the other > > > end. > > > > > > Obviously I must’ve veered slightly towards it by the time I got to > > > the > > > > > > end, but it was only a quickie test to see if the technique could be > > > > > > applied to shooting panomurals (as I’ve termed them). > > > > > > > On 18 November 2011 06:34, kfj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 18 Nov., 00:13, JohnPW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Nov 17, 4:13 pm, kfj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This is why we now try and coerce 2D hardware to do a 1D job. > > > > > > > > > I actually think using a 2D camera might be superior in many > > > ways. > > > > > > > > Besides ready availability of interchangeable equipment, it > > > would > > > > > > > > also be more forgiving of camera movement while also allowing > > > you to > > > > > > > > readily remove moving object artifacts. > > > > > > > > That's a point (or two, rather ;-) > > > > > > > > And maybe trying to do stay 1D and even 2D is too limiting anyway > > > > > > > - > > > > > > > eventually, we'll embrace 3D scene reconstruction, and for that > > > > > > > purpose parallax becomes an asset. > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > *Ian Tindale* > > > > > > -- > > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > > > > *Ian Tindale* > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > -- > > *Ian Tindale* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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