How to Make a Gigapixel Picture

[James Fee]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/4022149.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/technology/4022149.stm</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The Dutch team used already available technologies, although it had to upgrade them to be able to handle the high-resolution image. "We had to rewrite almost all the tools," Me den Hartog told the BBC News website. "All standard Windows viewers available would not be able to load such a large image, so we had to develop one ourselves." The 600 component pictures were taken on July 2004 by a computer-controlled camera with a 400 mm lens. Each image was made to slightly overlap so they could be accurately arranged into a composite. The stitching process was also done automatically using five powerful PCs over three days."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/making_photo.jpg" /><br /><br />An interesting look at the project <a href="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6998">we posted</a> about earlier. Is anyone here using software to stitch together photos at home?

[Neil Enns]

Yeah, I use PTAssember and Panotools. The most god-awful user interface known to man, but if you follow the tutorial you can futz through it enough to get good panos. All of the panoramas I did in my review of the panosaurus were stitched using those tools.

Neil

[Suhit Gupta]

I used Photostitch quite a bit, i.e. the software that comes with most Canon point-and-shoot cameras. In fact, my officemates and I had some fun with it here (http://www.suhit.com/pictures/ft-mchenry-army-of-clones.jpg).

Suhit

[Neil Enns]

Hmm, interesting link there Suhit :) www. is quite the address!

Neil

[Jonathon Watkins]

I use panorama factory for pictures like these. (http://jonathon.watkins.panoramas.fotopic.net/c245066.html)

[Suhit Gupta]

Hmm, interesting link there Suhit :) www. is quite the address!

Neil
Sorry, that was really dumb. The link (http://www.suhit.com/pictures/ft-mchenry-army-of-clones.jpg) has been fixed.

Suhit

[Filip Norrgard]

Sorry, that was really dumb. The link (http://www.suhit.com/pictures/ft-mchenry-army-of-clones.jpg) has been fixed.


Hmm... interesting panorama there, Suhit. Though there is something strange with that picture, but I can't just make out what is... ;) :lol: