PanoTools NG:
Re: Re: pano12 or pano13?
Ken Warner 2008-Nov-19 01:38:40
Yes, there's a lot of those kinds of apps around the web.
Always appealing to look somewhere else. I've got
a few of my favorites too.
http://san-clemente.org/cameras/hqcamera.aspx
Ken
Kathy Wheeler wrote:
> On 19/11/2008, at 2:28 AM, Ken Warner wrote:
>
>
>>Just curious but what is the application that you are
>>stitching these partial (cylinders, spheres???) for?
>
>
> It's a "daily" partial panorama looking out over our city from a hill-
> top vantage point, for use as a web page banner and archive into a
> higher resolution "gallery". Humans seem to be intrigued by the
> weather "at home" regardless of whether they are in town or on the
> other side of the world. We have quite a lot of traffic to our web
> cams although the view is fairly "ordinary" - just a landscape over
> the city - and straight from the cam limited in FOV.
>
> The web cam already exists, has been running for years, but we've
> found it's low light performance is not brilliant (it's a great view
> looking over the city from up here at night) and the mechanics of the
> PTZ is not pixel-accurate. It's programmed to take new images at
> varying locations and zoom levels every hour so it's constantly "on
> the move".
>
> So we're playing with the idea of using an array of "consumer" grade
> usb cameras mounted in a weather-proof permanently fixed housing to
> get better resolution, better low light performance, and more
> reliable repeatability. In theory that should make scripting a
> command line driven stitcher a breeze. Then run it off a cron job
> (I'm personally in favour of a random time of day/night), use PHP /
> GD or whatever to add a date and time stamp, possibly a caption and
> just walk away and let it do it's "thing". Create it's own files, add
> them to the gallery, update the masthead banner image etc.
>
> KathyW.
>
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