Panorama Experimentation
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I'm trying to photographically capture the experience of driving down the road in Afghanistan. This was taken from a snippet of a movie, dumped to jpgs, and stitched together. I'm still learning how to use this method effectively, and I think if I can get it down it will be a powerful photography method.
Technical details...
I took a movie recording on my camera, output the MOV to an image stack using ImageJ with a Quicktime plugin ( rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/ ) and then stitched it together using Hugin and Nona ( hugin.sourceforge.net/ ).
I'm having a hard time getting more than 150 images to blend well. Two problems, computational time and parallax ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ).
The parallax I'm learning how to minimize while recording the data. Main thing is to not try to record things in very different focal planes. Street fronts are working out well if I can have a lane between myself and the curb, and minimal traffic so cars don't cut into my field of view.
Problems I need help solving:
1 - Turning MOV's and AVI's into image stacks... I'm using ImageJ with a Quicktime plugin to import the movie into ImageJ and then saving as an image stack. A 9 meg movie takes 1.5 gigs of ram to do this way -- there has to be a more efficient way to. However, I can't find an easy script, and don't have long periods of internet connectivity to go wandering around the internet looking for one.
2 - Scripting control of Hugin... There doesn't appear to be a guide for scripting control of Hugin, which would be super useful. I've got two laptops here so I can put one as a brute force machine. I'd love to drop a series of MOVs into a folder and then fire up a script which starts at one and end goes to the other. Right now it takes a lot of babysitting (click here, click there), and I want to be able to walk away. I know what parameters and settings I want, but alas no easy scripting.
3 - Other ways to create panoramas automatically. Ideally open source stuff so I can install it on multiple machines without dicking with licenses.
Panorama Experimentation
Best viewed large... farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2973117073_dbe5438126_o.jpg
I'm trying to photographically capture the experience of driving down the road in Afghanistan. This was taken from a snippet of a movie, dumped to jpgs, and stitched together. I'm still learning how to use this method effectively, and I think if I can get it down it will be a powerful photography method.
Technical details...
I took a movie recording on my camera, output the MOV to an image stack using ImageJ with a Quicktime plugin ( rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/ ) and then stitched it together using Hugin and Nona ( hugin.sourceforge.net/ ).
I'm having a hard time getting more than 150 images to blend well. Two problems, computational time and parallax ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax ).
The parallax I'm learning how to minimize while recording the data. Main thing is to not try to record things in very different focal planes. Street fronts are working out well if I can have a lane between myself and the curb, and minimal traffic so cars don't cut into my field of view.
Problems I need help solving:
1 - Turning MOV's and AVI's into image stacks... I'm using ImageJ with a Quicktime plugin to import the movie into ImageJ and then saving as an image stack. A 9 meg movie takes 1.5 gigs of ram to do this way -- there has to be a more efficient way to. However, I can't find an easy script, and don't have long periods of internet connectivity to go wandering around the internet looking for one.
2 - Scripting control of Hugin... There doesn't appear to be a guide for scripting control of Hugin, which would be super useful. I've got two laptops here so I can put one as a brute force machine. I'd love to drop a series of MOVs into a folder and then fire up a script which starts at one and end goes to the other. Right now it takes a lot of babysitting (click here, click there), and I want to be able to walk away. I know what parameters and settings I want, but alas no easy scripting.
3 - Other ways to create panoramas automatically. Ideally open source stuff so I can install it on multiple machines without dicking with licenses.