Linux Panoramas Using WINE and Autostitch
From the “weird photography on Linux” front.
Autostitch is one of my favorite photo programs — it sets up panoramas without the annoying manual alignment that most programs require.
Problem — only runs on Windows (it is “free as in beer” there), no Linux, no OS X. I don’t have a Windows machine. Well, it turns out it runs nicely under WINE … perfectly in fact.
The above picture is a new experiment, an infrared panorama. It was assembled from 79 separate photos (some of the edges cropped off) from an ancient Olympus 2020z. The 2020z is, if I recall correctly, only a 2.1 megapixel camera — but it produces some excellent false-color IR at handheld speeds out of the box — without needing to be modified by companies like lifepixel — the 2020z has no IR-cut filter, which are common on nearly all cameras made after 2001. The bonus of shooting autostitch panoramas with this camera is that the lack of megapixels end up not mattering. The benefits of using autostitch is you can go crazy and shoot 79 pictures if you want, there’s not going to be any challenge in lining them up later.
Disclaimer: further editing done on Adobe Lightroom, sorry GIMP.
Anyway, hooray for WINE. I plan to get some more interesting shots of Raleigh using this combination in the next few weeks.
You can also try hugin with autopano-sift-C plugin from rpmfusion. It can run natively on Fedora and does magic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kushaldas/3524649580/
The above is a very basic result from auto stitching using autopano-sift-C.
Kushal Das
July 13, 2009 at 1:22 am
Ah cool, I think I installed that but wasn’t sure that’s what it was. Previously I’ve had some bad experiences with Hugin (without that plugin)
(FYI — I think you need to either enable All Sizes or something in Flickr — can’t zoom in on that one for some reason, but wanted to)
mpdehaan
July 13, 2009 at 1:29 am
Updated the license of the image. Now you should be able to zoom in.
Kushal Das
July 14, 2009 at 11:16 am
Does hugin’s autopano features not work for you in terms of automatically stitching?
rpmfusion has the autopano-sift-c package which I think adds some additional algorithms (which may be covered by a patent application according to the README)
-jef
Jef Spaleta
July 13, 2009 at 1:27 am
See my reply to Kushal — I’ve always just liked autostitch and found Hugin confusing. I’ll look again. It should be very interesting to compare results on the same datasets.
I played around with the demo for the (expensive) AutoPano, and it offered some slightly interesting options in terms of changing projections (don’t care) and also keeping certain things vertical (also don’t care) — but kind of interesting.
mpdehaan
July 13, 2009 at 2:47 am
hello,
i must say too that hugin with autopano is great:
http://gallery.jhr.cz/20080608–italie-rim-a-neapolsky-zaliv.pano/
http://gallery.jhr.cz/20070701–chorvatsko-pano/
http://gallery.jhr.cz/cernahora2008/
and i must say, that i don’t do much like digital light lightroom (editing and customization) and hugin excels mostly without any help.
jhr
July 16, 2009 at 10:27 am