{"id":783,"date":"2006-12-05T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=783"},"modified":"2006-12-05T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T12:30:21","slug":"autostitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Autostitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Steven<\/a> I find Dan’s Data<\/a>, where in turn I find a link to Autostitch<\/a>, a program that will take a whole bunch of pictures of the same scene and stitch them together to make one big honkin’ picture.<\/p>\n

The program claims that it does this automagically. You just take a few dozen pics and Autostitch will fit them together, and at the same time weed out pictures that don’t belong to the set. You don’t need to do anything. They also claim that you can can make spherical panoramas this way. <\/p>\n

This sounded a bit too good to be true. Spherical imaging is tough. Imagine. You’re standing on a hill. You stay in place (most importantly, keep the camera in place) and shoot the whole scene: All around, up, down, everything. Then you take those pics and give them to Autostitch, and it will piece them all together, correcting for varying levels of brightness, allowing for differering white-balance, correcting for slight parallaxing (because a human being is holding the camera and it’s bound to move a bit), and it will do it with no hints from the user as to how the images are supposed to fit together. <\/p>\n

I had to see this in action for myself, so this weekend I took a bunch of pictures of my home office and gave it a try. It worked. See the results below the fold.<\/p>\n

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