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:

Ten minutes later I had this:

Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 3:37pm

Comments

Submitted by Steven Garrity (not verified) on Sun, 2009-08-16 23:02.

Is it just me, so does that new building still look like a CAD-rendered preview?

Submitted by Olle Jonsson (not verified) on Mon, 2009-08-17 04:04.

Good stuff, Peter. This is quite useful. Stitching’s mappings little sister. (“Mrs gyrating” was the CAPTCHA, lordy.)

Submitted by Felix Huang (not verified) on Mon, 2009-08-17 10:58.

Very cool. @steven The photos are too sharp and in high contrast so they look unreal.

Submitted by Vivian (not verified) on Tue, 2009-08-18 15:25.

Now it it could just remove poles and wires.

Submitted by demacisaac (not verified) on Wed, 2009-08-19 23:36.

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