Panorama
I got a new camera last week, and have been having fun playing with it. I’ve already taken a few series of pictures with the intent of stitching them into a panorama, and tonight I started to figure out how to do it.
I found this linux.com article that talks about some open source tools for image stitching. It recommended an application called Hugin as “the reigning champ”, so I figured I’d give it a try. I haven’t tried much else, and I don’t think I will, because in about ten minutes with almost no effort I’ve got a pretty decent result. You’ve got to get some other tools for it to work (such as enblend, and autopano). I definitely recommend the autopano-sift control point search program, as it doesn’t have the limited functionality of the autopano (which requires a license for the sift feature), and worked great for me.
I’ve got some experimenting to do to figure out all of the possibilities, but I put together this quick panorama of part of Simi Valley from four photos taken from the hill where I work.
