Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 25, 2005 03:18 PM
I take many panorama photos and I am very frustrated by the state of image stitching applications. It seems that those which effectively stitch have egregiously poor user interfaces and or incredibly stupid arbitrary limitations (Arcsoft I am talking about you!) the ones that have a passable UI have lousy stitching algorithms (like the tool that came with my canon). The default standard panotools requires multiple installations, separate font-ends, and practically a Ph.D. to get working correctly. So now I use Autostitch first and if it doesn’t work then I move on to Panotools/Hugin.
I know Autostitch is Windows only and I know it is not GPL (but it is free as in Beer). I also know it is far from perfect. However whatever these boys are doing under the hood leaves every other image stitching application I’ve tried far, far, far behind. Someone much smarter than me needs to revamp Helmut Dersch's algorithms and or a build a Hugin like UI for Autostitch.
As a side note the O'Reilly book "Assembling Panoramas" is pretty good.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 25, 2005 03:18 PMI know Autostitch is Windows only and I know it is not GPL (but it is free as in Beer). I also know it is far from perfect. However whatever these boys are doing under the hood leaves every other image stitching application I’ve tried far, far, far behind. Someone much smarter than me needs to revamp Helmut Dersch's algorithms and or a build a Hugin like UI for Autostitch.
As a side note the O'Reilly book "Assembling Panoramas" is pretty good.
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