PanoTools NG:
Re: Workflow Macro
David Sykes 2007-May-11 15:12:58
Alex wrote:
> Has anyone written a macro to further automate the PTGUI workflow?
A few days ago I completed a project for the fully-automatic
collection and processing of images for stereo 360 degree cylindrical
panoramas.
In the field, a stepper-motor-driven rotary table is operated with an
£8 microcontroller and gathers the images with greater precision than
$1000 manual, precision heads.
It cost about £80 to build.
At home, the images are loaded into Left/Right folders and in each of
those folders, sorted into 'focal-length
folders' (7.3, 8.4, etc) and in those into image folders (A,B,C, etc).
A script works it's way through the subfolders and creates PTGui
project files with all the correct information for stitching images.
PTGui then runs the projects in batch mode.
Because the equipment is so accurate, I can simply copy relevant data
from a previously-calibrated project template for that
camera (left or right) and zoom-setting into a new template (that has
different source-image names).
You have to take care creating the master templates, they can look
fine in 2D but have strange depth-effects (a single narrow vertical
strip floating above the pano or a sudden jump nearer to the viewer at
a certain point and for the entire pano height) but once that is
sorted-out it seems to work on all the pano's.
In fact, I have just come in from testing the equipment in a bluebell
wood and cemetery :-)
David Sykes
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