Comments on: This Dog Wags for A Calico http://cogdogblog.com/2008/08/20/calico/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/2008/08/20/calico/comment-page-1/#comment-56064 Alan Levine aka CogDog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:35:27 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=2644#comment-56064 Calico basically is the same stitch engine as Autostitch. I have seen this happen a few times and my hunch is when there is enough difference in the overlap area (people/objects moving, I think a boat had moved in this one) that it cannot register the points sufficiently, so it just drops the images Calico basically is the same stitch engine as Autostitch. I have seen this happen a few times and my hunch is when there is enough difference in the overlap area (people/objects moving, I think a boat had moved in this one) that it cannot register the points sufficiently, so it just drops the images

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2008/08/20/calico/comment-page-1/#comment-56063 D'Arcy Norman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:28:20 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=2644#comment-56063 Just realized - it looks like both Autostitch and Calico barfed on the bridge in your pano - did they choke on it, or did you not add those frames? I tried to do a pano of Hanauma Bay a couple of years ago, but Autostitch refused to handle the mouth of the bay and I wound up with two separate unconnected panos of each side... Just realized – it looks like both Autostitch and Calico barfed on the bridge in your pano – did they choke on it, or did you not add those frames?

I tried to do a pano of Hanauma Bay a couple of years ago, but Autostitch refused to handle the mouth of the bay and I wound up with two separate unconnected panos of each side…

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2008/08/20/calico/comment-page-1/#comment-56062 D'Arcy Norman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:26:36 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=2644#comment-56062 Gotta LOVE Calico. I'd purchased a license back in Sept, but the software wasn't working quite as well as DoubleTake at the time. It looks like it's been much improved - I just tested a rendering of the pano I shot in my office, and it was MUCH faster than Autostitch on Windows, and rendered a full resolution version as well (Autostitch and/or Windows ran out of memory when trying to do that...) Thanks for the reminder about Calico! I'll be shooting more panos with it :-) Gotta LOVE Calico. I’d purchased a license back in Sept, but the software wasn’t working quite as well as DoubleTake at the time. It looks like it’s been much improved – I just tested a rendering of the pano I shot in my office, and it was MUCH faster than Autostitch on Windows, and rendered a full resolution version as well (Autostitch and/or Windows ran out of memory when trying to do that…)

Thanks for the reminder about Calico! I’ll be shooting more panos with it :-)

]]> By: Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/2008/08/20/calico/comment-page-1/#comment-56060 Alan Levine aka CogDog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:57:53 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=2644#comment-56060 Thanks Kisa! I meant to look to see what it would take for the panos to be put in Stephane Zugzwang's Virtual Reality Room Thanks Kisa! I meant to look to see what it would take for the panos to be put in Stephane Zugzwang’s Virtual Reality Room

]]> By: Kisa Naumova http://cogdogblog.com/2008/08/20/calico/comment-page-1/#comment-56059 Kisa Naumova Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:28:37 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=2644#comment-56059 One of the great things to do with panoramas is to make them into Quicktime VR objects. Then you can immerse yourself in Second Life You've probably come across it, but if not, have a look for Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/). It's rather wonderful (if a little fiddly) and what I've found is that it will take the files that commercial demo software AutoPano Pro saves, and render them for free One of the great things to do with panoramas is to make them into Quicktime VR objects. Then you can immerse yourself in Second Life

You’ve probably come across it, but if not, have a look for Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/). It’s rather wonderful (if a little fiddly) and what I’ve found is that it will take the files that commercial demo software AutoPano Pro saves, and render them for free

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