Ten

Review: Software, Autostitch™ :

"a new dimension in automatic image stitching"

Autostitch is a pretty nifty panorama stitching tool developed by Matthew Brown and David G. Lowe at the Department for Computer Science of the University of British Colombia. Brown is meanwhile a developer working on the same theme at Microsoft.

this is quite funny, as the screenshot above is all their is to the software...

The software uses the SIFT - and the RANSAC - Algorithm (lol). This program is quite differrent from other software such as photostitch in that it automatically stitches together even unaligned or zoomed photographs seamlessly without user input. Before i downloaded it i was under the impresseion i would have to sit and allign photographs together, long, which is usually the case with other pano softwares. The only requirement is that all photographs be taken from a single point. Which is fair enough, i shot mine from my tripod.

The software is available to download for free at the autostitch site. If your into panos, or new to panos i think its ideal, infact if you havent done a pano before, i reccomend you try it, i think youll be pleasantly surprised! I also reccommend you take a peek at the Gallery on their site, there are some pretty beautiful mountain and snow pano shots.

Here are some images i tried just for a laaf of my room, i wasnt sure how many it can process, but apparently it can process a fair few, ill have to try a 360 degree one in time:

And here is the Rendered software version, the whole thing is literally done through the software and the image recognition, its pretty bloody good!

click to view large,

In terms of drawbacks, i'd say that it does bend some of the images, which loses quality, but i only think that occurs when you photograph subjects around an angle. Far landscape shots would probably not be affected in this way. Either way, it can easily be corrected in most photo editing software.

Other than that. ten out of ten

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