Hugin panoramas
Posted by david on Sunday Jul 19, 2009 Under UncategorizedI have been bitten by the panorama bug. This last few days I have been looking at all of the open source software for creating 360 degree panoramas. Apart from looking really cool I can see many education applications and envisage embedding 360 degree panoramas into blogs and wikis.
I have been out and about trying to create 360×180 panorama of images with my 18mm lens to then put into Hugin for it to stitch it together. It is no mean feat for it to do and so far I have only managed to create a cylindrical panorama and not a full spherical one. Once the stitching process has been learnt and understood, I will then move on to use the enblend360 utility which creates a composite image from three different exposures of the same images in order to get a uniform exposure. Finally, when this has all happened I will then be able to produce a ‘rectilinear’ image for submission to 360cities and inclusion into their collection for embedding into Google Earth. However to reach that exalted state I have to submit three rectilinear images, so I had better get cracking. My three images will be panoramas of Auckland, and my first one will be from the top of one of the cones and am still working on the others at the moment. In the meantime take a look at the different embedded panoramas below.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Loving the stitcher info - awesome examples too. Got to get the kids giving that a go on Monday - awesome
Love your Flickr widget too - did you find that off the widgetbox?
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Cheesy, what is more you can then turn on the 360cities layer in Google Earth and see you submitted panorama at its location. Check out the map on the http://360cities.com website Cool stuff. The stitching software works well with all cameras, however it does chew a lot of processing power. Let me know how your students get on.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
So do you have a proper panorama tripod head for your camera? or did you make shift one?
taught a child to do pano today - trying to upload took forever seemingly - and that was just an image???? me thinks these ones you have must have taken heaps of grunt in computer - need a desktop for this not a lappy right?
will let you know when the image is up…….
August 7th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Cheesy, If you look at the requirements for the images to upload to 360Cities the file size is not huge. I would suggest that you change the file size of the image you capture on your camera. I have found that Hugin works fine for me on my P4 computer. No I do not have a Pano head for my tripod they retail at about $900! So I am making do with a plum line and a fixed point on the ground and shooting freehand! I think I need to speak to you to explain that one! Skype me?