DonH
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 I have seen ... (new panos) | |
... the future of stitching and it is now.
Some time ago I posted a many-shot pano of Ubehube Crater in Death Valley. At the time I could not reveal what I used to make it. Well, I can now say.
In the interest of full disclosure, I work for Microsoft (but not in the marketing / sales department). :) In that capacity, I often have the opportunity to try out new software well before the general public. Last May, Microsoft Research made one of their projects available for use by Microsoft employees. That project was for stitching software.
Now for the really cool part. To produce that Crater pano, all I had to do was select the shots that went into the mosaic. It did not matter which order they were selected in. After selection, press Run. That's it! No preliminary measurement of pitch, yaw, roll, or the lens used. No marking of points that adjacent shots had in common. Nothing! The software would analyze the patterns in each shot, then, like a jigsaw puzzle, figure out which pieces fit together. If it finds a shot that it can't match, it sets it aside for you to insert later or discard if it doesn't belong. Jeffrey actually saw me do it so, as the saying goes, "I have a witness".
Anyway, the stitching software is now just a feature of the just-released Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10. As far as I can see, the only limitation is that the final pano cannot exceed 53 Mpixels (as I recall). If you create a pano larger, it will ask you to select a small, medium, or large pano setting rather than the default "actual" setting.
I've included a 5-shot pano for your inspection. I've intentionally made it rather large and not processed the heck out of it. I can not find any stitch lines, can you? I'm not particularly interested in the merits (or demerits) of the picture.
Edited by DonH on Aug 11, 2004 at 10:04 PM GMT
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