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Building Panoramic Images in The GIMP

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2004-02-10 05:53. GIMP

Panoramic landscapes make for some amazing photos. There's nothing like the feeling of relaxation and tranquility gained by gazing over the vivid images of sweeping wilderness, minus the hassle of actually getting there. Using a digital camera, it's possible to stitch photos together to simulate the expensive effects of a landscape filter. After I'd bought my digital camera (a Nikon Coolpix 4300) and set it up to work under Linux, getting software to stitch photos together was my next task.

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Re: Building Panoramic Images in The GIMP

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-02-10 11:36.

Anyone know of any software that will reshape the image correctly to match it up?

All Pandora does it make images large enough for you to manually line your images up. Some smarter packages will do some image processing to match the images up.

But the most advanced packages (the one that comes with Canon ZoomBrowser, for instance) will skew the image to correct for effects from the camera projection.

In Computer Vision-speak, the first two are fine when your image is roughly affine (ie: when the target is a LONG WAYS away). But when things are close, the affine projection breaks down, and you must correct for the perspective projection.

Anyone know if software out there corrects for this? It'd certainly be something nice to add in to Pandora, and I might take a crack at it, if nothing like this has been done before.

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