On Mon, 23 May 2005, Mark Roberts wrote:
I'm looking for panorama stitching software - I'm doing more of this
type of photo and finding myself with less time to do it, so the manual
method I've used in the past, though effective, is far too time
consuming. I've just downloaded a promising package called Pixtra
PanoStitch and was wondering if anyone has any experience with it (or
would recommend something else).
I can't recommend winders-land stuff, but I know that some of the
panotools crosses platforms. I use the 'Hugin' frontend under linux for
pano tweaking. Recently, I've messed with 'autopano' which I *know* is
winders-land (since I had to do a bunch of C# crap to make it fly under
linux). Anyway, it does a good job of autodetecting control points if the
pictures are sufficiently well-behaved. Then hugin as a frontend to
panotools to warp, and enblend to combine the results.
I have a hard time thinking that it can be a whole lot easier than
that and still be flexible enough to be useful. Most of the
difficulty in pano stuff (to make a good quality one, anyway) is
correcting lens distortion and placement.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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