Panoramic Image Stitching Tools for Unix? 27
jbuberel asks: "I just got myself a fancy new Canon Powershot S400 camera. One of it's nifty features is it's 'Panoramic Assist' mode that helps you line up a series of images that can later be stitched together to form one larger panoramic image. Of course the software that ships with the camera to do the stitching is Windows-only. After spending some time probing freshmeat.net and google.com, I came across one dead project, and another relatively academic project who's tools are largely undocumented. So are there any up-to-date tools for composing panoramic photos in Unix? With so many digital photo afficianados out there, I was surprised there wasn't an easy-to-use GIMP plugin for this."
Check the QTVR archives. (Score:5, Informative)
You might want to try Pano Tools [panoguide.com] if you can track down a copy, I've heard good things about them, but I think there was a problem with iPix claiming they infringed on a patent related to unwrapping spherical images.
Personally, I use Vr Worx 2.1 [vrtoolbox.com] for stitching together panoramas, and making simple QTVR scenes [ofdoom.com]. I've been very happy with it. It does only run under OSX, so it may not be suitable for your needs.
Re:Check the QTVR archives. (Score:4, Interesting)
Canon PhotoStitch! (Score:2)
Or were you looking for something open-source that could be ported to _all kinds_ of UNIX? ;)
Re:Canon PhotoStitch! (Score:2)
TechTV just had that on a few days ago (Score:3, Informative)
HTH
patent abuse (Score:1)
Re:patent abuse (Score:3, Interesting)
iPix claims to own the concept of flattening out an image taken through a fisheye lens into a panorama. They are rather aggressive in going after anyone they thing might infringe.
This is part of the reason that iPix has a rather bad reputation among many people (the other reasons are the low quality of the images their software generates, and the per-image-generated fees they charge for the use of their software).
Re:patent abuse (Score:2)
I am dismayed to hear that iPix are giving Helmut Dersch grief over his software. I wondered why the site had been down for so long. It is outrageous that they should attempt to stop him publishing his own work just because they think it is too similar to something they are doing.
Re:patent abuse (Score:2)
Re:patent abuse (Score:1)
Re:patent abuse (Score:3, Informative)
Re:patent abuse (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/
The path "/~dersch/" suggests that this is a UNIX system and that Dersch actually has an account. Creating an account would seem like unnecessary trouble to go through for simply mirroring a site. But, of course, it could just be a weird setup.
Re:patent abuse (Score:2, Informative)
A bit more searching though, and it appears that the IPIX trouble may not be the cause of the current outage - see this [mit.edu].
The Panorama Factory with wine (Score:3, Interesting)
Was a gimp tutorial on it somewhere (Score:1)
Re:Was a gimp tutorial on it somewhere (Score:3, Funny)
At http://www.google.com ?
Freedom VR (Score:1)
Short sweet and does a good job. You can see an example I put together here: http://www.museums.org.za/sang/exhib/j_alex/
Jus
Re:Freedom VR (Score:2)
Take another look (Score:4, Informative)
Use this Gimp Tutorial (Score:2, Informative)
Here you go! [geocities.com]
Panotools! (Score:3, Informative)
The java frontend is even pretty good and works fine on about anything that can run java (and is REALLY fast)... if you're on Windows, though, PTGUI is pretty much the same as the java interface, just faster, and on the mac, PTMac fits the bill for a front end.
Just search the net for panotools to find it; it's everywhere.
~GoRK
some links to get you started (Score:2)
netpbm tools! (Score:2)
These tools are the default utilities for mainipulating images serverside with the Gallery [sourceforge.net] web based photo album.