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Making Panoramas with Hugin

I stumbled across Hugin, an open source photo stitching application, after hearing about OpenStreetView in a podcast interview with Steve Coast.

I’ve been interested in panoramic photo stitching since we first experimented it for these Quicktime VR panoramas of Green Gables back in 1997 (interesting side-story: those panos were used to help investigate the fire at Green Gables that happened only weeks after the original photos were taken).

The state of the art has come a long way since the clunky old (but still somewhat amazing) Quicktime VR authoring tools, and Hugin is a great example of this. After installing it, I dashed out the front door of the office and snapped 8 photos of the new Homburg Skyscraper:

Panorama Parts

Ten minutes later I had this:

Fitzroy Street Panorama

Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 2:37pm
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Steven Garrity on August 16, 2009
Is it just me, so does that new building still look like a CAD-rendered preview?
Olle Jonsson's picture
Olle Jonsson on August 17, 2009
Good stuff, Peter. This is quite useful. Stitching’s mappings little sister. (“Mrs gyrating” was the CAPTCHA, lordy.)
Felix Huang's picture
Felix Huang on August 17, 2009
Very cool. @steven The photos are too sharp and in high contrast so they look unreal.
Vivian's picture
Vivian on August 18, 2009
Now it it could just remove poles and wires.
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demacisaac on August 19, 2009
Hi Peter, I have seen a few photo-editing sites but not this one. I really like the effects. I saw a lot of these types of pictures in presentaton houses in Toronto. BTW, I happened to join Edtechtalk tonight and the conversaton turned to photo editing with students and the map city street projects going on in the world. Hope you don’t mind that I mentioned your blog as a a good place for information on both. Free adverstising, right? keep writing love seeing a touch of island D

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