Tokyo city - 84 image "panorama" (dial-up warning

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Tokyo city - 84 image "panorama" (dial-up warning

Postby rog on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:33 pm

I've been moving house, travelling for work and well out of the loop in general, but thought I'd pop in to share this ...

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Tokyo city - 84 image panorama (14 rows x 6 columns) - uploaded at 1/10th of full size - original is 23550x9360=220 megapixels - 515kB dial-up warning - JPG

Shot on a Canon 20D with a 17-85mm lens @ 85mm over a few minutes (after setting up). It was from a hotel room, so there's some extra glass in the way unfortunately. Stitched using autopano-sift -> hugin -> enblend -> ImageMagick. 1Gb of memory in the computer was just barely enough and it took aaaaages. I haven't been able to view the 900Mb tiff file yet. :)

Questions/feedback/comments welcome. I know it's not the most interesting scene around, but it was a good opportunity to try a "superpano".
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Postby wendellt on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:38 pm

Nice one

I heard from Dstrom you had been travelling and you took many gigabytes of images cant remember the number but a monumental amount of images

nice to hear your back
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:43 pm

I'm very impressed Rog, great work. I've been hoping to do a big "2D" pano similar, but have been waiting for a view to suit it. Most impressed by the stitching job, but I suggest you do a dry blow clean, as I can see dust bunnies and in a pano like this it happens again and again.
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Postby gstark on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:46 pm

wendellt wrote:nice to hear your back


And the rest of his body too, I would hope.

:)
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Postby TonyH on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:47 pm

Very nice work.....
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Postby wendellt on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:54 pm

gstark wrote:
wendellt wrote:nice to hear your back


And the rest of his body too, I would hope.

:)


ha ha gary

and ha ha ha for your apt rank description for me even though i don't entirely get it

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just to sho you ain't hijacking your thread double thumbs up on your image it wouldn't have been easy to stitch and take
especially behind a window
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Postby rog on Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:59 pm

Thanks for the feedback all.

Alpha_7, I gave the sensor a once over when I got back. Unfortunately I didn't get to the bunnies sooner. One day all the right factors will come together, batteries charged, blue sky, clean sensor, no power lines in the way, ........ :)
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Postby DaveB on Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:03 pm

Nice work!
There are a few sections that I looked and thought I saw stitching errors but on closer examination it's actually the funky architecture of some of these buildings...

Not my personal favourite subject, but that's just me. ;)
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Postby ozimax on Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:41 pm

gstark wrote:
wendellt wrote:nice to hear your back


And the rest of his body too, I would hope.

:)


This is really really bad 8) :lol:

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Postby Big V on Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:47 pm

This is a really impressive pano given the number of images used to make it.
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Postby NikonUser on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:08 pm

Holy crap! :)

That's awesome. I can't even get three images to stitch together properly!!

So you could print it out at 2m x 0.8m @300dpi and be able to scrutinise close up! I'd love to see that!

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Postby Alex on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:16 pm

What a great pano. Well done.

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Postby obzelite on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:32 pm

Very nice, most I’ve attempted is 12 pics and that was tough to stitch.
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:58 pm

Totally amazing Rog - well done :)
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Postby mudder on Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:28 pm

Woah, what an amazing effort, I'd have given up ages ago... :lol:

Looks as though there's heaps of detail in there, would look very, very impressive printed LARGE!

Well done, it looks great...
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Postby rog on Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:59 pm

I'll try to extract a full-size crop and post it up soon.

Your calculations are spot on Paul. I don't know if I'd ever fork out for a print that big, maybe with a more interesting subject. :)

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Postby rog on Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:31 pm

I got a full size crop and found a stitching error, so I think it might be back to the drawing board to fine-tune the automatic control points.
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Postby Oneputt on Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:45 pm

Awesome Rog...just awesome :D
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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:38 pm

(only 1 stitching error), I'd still count that as an awesome achievement ROG. With THAT many seams to stitch. Wowsa!
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Postby rog on Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:06 am

Sorry, the crop was just a screenful. So, if there's one stitching error in that, who knows how many more there are in the other 200 odd megapixels.

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Postby sydneywebcam on Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:16 am

That is one built up city. Great amount of detail. I could stare at a large print of this for ages. Terrific work.
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