Automagic panoramas

Monday, December 19, 2005

I’m experimenting with funky panorama software that automagically figures out how to align images. It’s the coolest thing I’ve seen yet. I may even register.

But it’s got limits; anyone know how to cure this one’s distorted perspective? The perspective correction tool in Gimp doesn’t understand that I want to slim this one down the middle.

This structure is one of four towers surrounding the main shrine at Ta Keo. The ground level you see here is two or three floors above actual ground level.

ravi — Dec 19, 2005 9:27:17 AM — # ↩

Have you looked at autostitch:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Dec 19, 2005 10:23:44 AM — # ↩
  
  Sweet!
  
  But no Windows here, and no disk space for a virtual image. :-(
  - tariquesani — Dec 19, 2005 1:28:05 PM — # ↩
    
    Like Ravi recommended Autostititch takes care of the perspective barring that try experimenting with any software which gives fisheye correction - just perspective is too linear for the job
- yawhatever — Dec 19, 2005 8:24:31 PM — # ↩
  
  neat!
kaykay_arr — Dec 19, 2005 2:36:43 PM — # ↩

Wow...excellent. I should try this once!
nileshc — Jan 1, 2006 8:48:05 PM — # ↩

This is what I got with the Pinch tool and adjusting the contrast using curves in Photoshop. While you cannot eliminate the distortion completely (it is a wide angle shot, all said), you can surely reduce the effect.