I’d seen Autostitch when it was first announced – as a research project by a couple of students at UBC. It’s a really cool app that takes in an arbitrary set of photos that were taken of the same scene, and stitches them together automagically without user intervention.
Very cool software, and it does an amazing job.
But, it’s Windows only. It runs OK in Virtual PC, but it’s slow (as expected). I would really love it if this was somehow included in iPhoto 5 – imagine being able to select a set of photos and say “stitch these together for me” – and have it actually do it…
Here’s a pano I did of the view from the condo we stayed at in Honolulu. I just took a bunch of pictures with my digital camera (no tripod or anything), and fed them into Autostitch.
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Have you seen Photostitch (for Mac OS X)? It came, I believe, with our Canon scanner (a little cheap $30-50 thing), but I was playing around with some pics from the iSight the other day, right clicked on the images produced and saw Photostitch in the list of apps to potentially open the jpegs with… so I gave it a go… and it looks very similar to Autostitch above…
The pages seem to be removed from Canon’s site, but Google has it in the cache here.
It produces wide jpegs as well as Quicktime VRs…
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PhotoStitch doesn’t seem to be readily available – I’m looking for a copy to try out now.
The screenshots I found via Google look pretty cool, but not as completely automated as Autostitch.
If you know where PhotoStitch is available, I’d love to hear about it.
Okay, this seems to be your best bet:
http://wblrd.sk.ca/~multimedia/vr/panoramatutorial/software/softwarepswheredoigetit.html.
It’s an older page… but the numbers and details it provides on that page may still be valid…
UBC autostich found at:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html – 11k – 12 Aug 2005
Ken, thanks for the link… It was in the first line of my blog entry, too
I’ve been using Autostitch for a while now, and absolutely love it. I just tried Photostitch to make a pano, and while it’s way easier than what the early pano software was, it still doesn’t even come close to Autostitch…
Dang. When I read that they had made it compatible with Firefox, I figured that implied cross-platform/cross-browser support. Unfortunately, I’d emailed a link to another mac user reporting the same thing. Lo and behold when I check it out for myself, I couldn’t get it to run on FF2/Kunbuntu … oh well, leave it to Microsoft …
thanks anyway. I’ll try again when I get Parallels running (again) on my MacBook Pro…
Have you seen this?
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/view.html?collection=sanmarco/index1.sxs
Nope.
Windows XP SP2 and Vista Only
The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.
If you feel you’ve reached this message in error, you can try anyway.
Doh.
Have you tried Calico? It’s a licensee of the Autostitch technology… I haven’t looked at it for a while (first time I looked, I remember it needing some UI work) but it’s produced some good panos. Only reason I haven’t purchased it yet is because of the $40 price tag, but I’m starting to consider it, because DoubleTake just can’t quite seem to achieve the same good results… there’s a review here:
http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2006/04/05/calico-autostitch-for-mac-os-x/