One surprisingly goog utility I use for stitching photos together is M$ Image Compositing Editor (ICE). Yes it is Microsoft and winders based, but at least the distribute it freely and I have to use Winders for work. I use it all the time to composite photo images of the numerous quarries I visit. Have not played around with any linux based ones (yet) Brian
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:00 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:08:20 PM charles green did opine: > > > take lots of lower quality pics, crop for the good parts, and stitch > > together. > > There is supposedly a utility to facilitate that Charles, but the one time > I tried it, it was rather soundly defeated by the lack of true imaging by > the lens of my then $500 Olympus camera, which until then I was not aware > that it had _any_ barrel or pincushion distortion. That camera was a > really bad battery hog although its color was excellent and has been > replaced by a Nikon L100 Coolpix which has very obvious amounts of barrel > distortion and poorer color, so I haven't even tried to locate and build it > again. Maybe it has gotten smart enough to adjust for those distortions in > the meantime. ISTR it was called Hugin or something similar sounding. > Yeah, pclos calls hugin the 'panorama tools' gui. And that pulled in 6 > other packages worth of dependencies. So I loaded up two pix of the > kitchen cabinets I did new door panels for a couple years back and told it > to merge them, which it did, but the result was very severely distorted > because the camera was aimed uphill about 10 degrees, and 95% of the > resolution of the images was lost in blending artifacts. Now if I could > precorrect for that tilt by essentially telling it the film was vertical > and that the lens was slid upwards a bit applied as predistortions to > correct that camera tilt, maybe I might get something usable. Worth my > time? Not really until I have material worth fooling with, probably by > tripod mounting the camera on a precisely leveled head and shooting a pix > about every 20 degrees of turning the camera. I do think its more mature > than when I last tried it though. At least the barrel distortion, about > 10% in that Nikon lens I expected a heck of a lot better from, didn't make > it upchuck and complain. > > But it did throw an error and quit, some dependency it needed and didn't > pull in when I attempted to change something and re-run it. > > Something to play with in warmer weather I believe, when I get near the > bottom of the bucket and honeydo lists. :) Like that will happen soon, I > need to put a hitch on the Toy so I can pull my trash trailer, and a fresh > engine in my GMC, probably also hauled in said trailer once I hit the > landfill with whats in it now, by getting something bigger than my lawn > mower to pull it with rigged. > > [...] > > Thanks Charles. > > Cheers, Gene > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> > If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
