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[olimario]

Somebody in the Room thread pointed me to this program. It's a brillaint free piece of software that combines all of your images into one. It is absolutely wonderful.

AUTOSWITCH
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html


YOu guys should try this out and post your results.
What I want to do is go back late this evening and take the same pictures and combine them into the broad daylight ones.

Heres an image I just did with 14 images. I'm so impressed.

 

[cloudwalking]

That's really cool! Very nice neighbourhood, too. Do you live there?

 

[ToxicAdam]

That is awesome, can't wait to try this when I get home.


What would be cool is to take a picture of your neighborhood at various times of the day, you could go from noon, to afternoon, to evening to night in the span of the whole picture.

 

[olimario]

That is awesome, can't wait to try this when I get home.


What would be cool is to take a picture of your neighborhood at various times of the day, you could go from noon, to afternoon, to evening to night in the span of the whole picture.

Thats exactly what I want to try.
I need to go mark a spot to stand for my pictures. Should be fun.

 

[Minotauro]

Jesus Christ, Texas has a boring landscape.

 

[FoneBone]

Jesus Christ, Texas has a boring landscape.

There's nothing particularly Texan about that... you find those homogenous housing developments in pretty much any major suburban area. Wouldn't want to live in one of those...

 

[Minotauro]

There's nothing particularly Texan about that... you find those homogenous housing developments in pretty much any major suburban area. Wouldn't want to live in one of those...

What really gets me is how the houses tower over everything in their vicinity. I mean, you can't see trees or hills or anything behind them.

Then again, you're probably right...these types of housing developments aren't really exclusive to Texas. In truth, I just wanted to take the opportunity to knock Oli's hometown.

 

[Great King Bowser]

How do you take the actual photos to combine? Seriously?

I keep asking this oli, but I keep forgetting. What camera?

I'm looking to buy a camera now. :lol

 

[olimario]

There's nothing particularly Texan about that... you find those homogenous housing developments in pretty much any major suburban area. Wouldn't want to live in one of those...

To my credit, my backyard is pretty darn cool.

 

[Justin Bailey]

pretty cool*

*posted for easy access later

 

[nitewulf]

ummm, your sony camera doesnt have an autostitch mode?
my G5 has a total custom mode for stitched panoramas. horizontal, vertical and 360 degrees rotational.
this is one from the top of the sears tower:

 

[Litigation Manuel]

ummm, your sony camera doesnt have an autostitch mode?
my G5 has a total custom mode for stitched panoramas. horizontal, vertical and 360 degrees rotational.
this is one from the top of the sears tower:

Wow, that's a really nice picture. Congrats.

 

[Desperado]

Yeah, Texas landscape is shit. We took a trip to Cali 2 weeks ago and I was floored.

 

[AirBrian]

I'll have to try this when I get home.

 

[olimario]

That's really cool! Very nice neighbourhood, too. Do you live there?

Yup. My house is the one with the car parked in front.

 

[Naked Snake]

ummm, your sony camera doesnt have an autostitch mode?
my G5 has a total custom mode for stitched panoramas. horizontal, vertical and 360 degrees rotational.
this is one from the top of the sears tower:

WTF You can see the curvature of the Earth in that pic, is that normal at this scale? :\ Otherwise really hot photo, I saved it.

 

[pxleyes]

I tried it on two sets of photos I KNOW to fit together with just a little overlap, and it didn't work at all.

Your found app gets 2 thumbs down.

 

[nitewulf]

WTF You can see the curvature of the Earth in that pic, is that normal at this scale? :\ Otherwise really hot photo, I saved it.

no, you definitely wouldn't see the curvature at that scale. i stitched it using the rotational option provided by canon, thought it looked cooler.

 

[rc213]

Pretty sweet lookin pics.

 

[cloudwalking]

Yup. My house is the one with the car parked in front.

You have a gorgeous house.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Hey I know that street and that house too... My friend in Dallas lives on a street and house just like that... Why the hell does Texas look the same...

 

[NetMapel]

Ehhh... that looks like a very standard suburb residential area. Such neighborhood exists everywhere in North America.

 

[Vlad]

From a recent vacation to Pacific Grove, CA:

Those were put together with the software that came with our Canon digicam, though.

 

[Hitokage]

Yeah, Texas landscape is shit. We took a trip to Cali 2 weeks ago and I was floored.

Haha, if California floored you...

 

[BugCatcher]

Nice find oli, this is a really impressive application. I've tried lots of manual and semi-automatic stitching programs, but this seems to do a better job and gets them done faster to boot.

I tried it on two sets of photos I KNOW to fit together with just a little overlap, and it didn't work at all.

Your found app gets 2 thumbs down.

This is the only problem; most of the photo sets I tested this with worked flawlessly, but if there is VERY little overlap it will choke. I had a city panorama with 8 photos, but it could only stitch 5 together. This is a problem with manual stitching programs too; you see obvious, blurry vertical lines where the program got confused. Even so, you could still get them to make a panorama, even if it's a bad one.

The only depressing part is that my old photos look like crap when made into a panorama. I didn't know anything about metering or white balance back when I took the pictures, so the exposure and color is different in each one

EDIT: The fact that it won't force pictures together that it can't match up allows it to do something cool: you can throw a folder of pictures at it, and it will determine which ones are part of the panorama, and which ones don't belong. It can even recognize multiple panoramas from the same set! Check it out