For anyone who was afraid to live on the bleeding edge, I just noticed that the Hugin project has released stable binaries for windows (32 and 64 bit) and Mac OS. This program is just awesome for panorama stitching. I prefer it to CS4's stitching routine any day and it's free.
stable Hugin binaries released
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Posted 2 years ago #
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I've been rolling my own from SVN for the last couple of weeks and have had no issues.
For anyone who feels technically challenged, and has more money than time, I still think PTgui deserves a look. Keep in mind that at its core it uses the same math libraries as Huggin, but I feel it has some smarter defaults and results in more success with problematic (read parallax problems) images out-of-the-box. Huggin can be whipped into shape to accomplish the same goal, but again more dollars than time is what I'm talking about.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I downloaded it! i am interested to see how it competes against my CS5. Ive been holding off buying autopano pro for a while
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That advantage of Hugin over photoshop is that you have some control over the stiching process, whereas photoshop gives you next to nothing. Normally I find photoshop ok, but occasionally it will fail to merge images, and doesn't leave me with many options to "help i out" so to speak. At least with Hugin, I can specify control points between objects I know should match up.
By the way, does anyone happen to know where to get the control point generators for OSX version? when I last installed Hugin, I got a note saying that these were intentionally left out for copyright reasons, but are available elsewhere (without specifying where of course).
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jerl, am I wrong in believing that the main reason they've finally released official binaries is that they've got a free (as in freedom) control point algorithm now? I think they don't include Autopanosift-C in the binaries because of the potential free as in freedom problems, but they have something else that has taken its place.
I think you might be okay now with this most recent version. I had the same issue with the last version I downloaded (Dec 2010), but I'm off to try the official windows binary now. I'll update when I've checked it.
EDIT: I think I was right about the control point algorithm. I'll bet you could add autopanosift-c if you need it, but they've now got a routine called hugin cpfind that does the control point finding. It seems really fast and maybe better than autopanosift-c based on my single data point—a vertical pano that was giving me trouble when I tried it before if I'm remembering right (I know I never got a result I was satisfied with).
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