Joining the panorama craze.
August 24th, 2006 by Jerry
So after seeing some of Mark’s panorama pics made by Autostitch, I remembered I had a few unfinished pano-attempts from Hawaii. I figured someone had come up with an open source automatic photostitching library, but I never would have guessed there is a very nice application that does it all (with a bit of nasty compiling, in proper Linux fashion). It’s called Hugin, and it uses the panotools library, autopano-sift, and enblend to stitch a bunch of photos together into a seamless (really!) photo… Usually. Sometimes you have to nudge it along with a few more control points, but the blender is so smart that it knows how to join two images that have been matched up, even if their exposures are slightly different.
The shot above is from Hanauma Bay near Waikiki. It’s a prime snorkeling spot because it’s mostly protected against the waves, but all the coral there is mostly dead, and it’s always crowded. Looks good from the roadway above, though. 2 Responses to “Joining the panorama craze.”
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on 25 Aug 2006 at 5:30 pm Jenseemless or seamless?
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on 25 Aug 2006 at 6:07 pm JerryActually, I think it’s either. “Seemless,” to me, means that differences or changes are not easily noticed (ie. nothing “seems” different). “Seamless” means that there are no discernable seams, or edges. So in this instance, I think “seamless” is the better of the two terms, but in most other situations, I would have to use “seemless.” Good catch.