PanoTools NG:
Re: Re: Workflow Macro
Alex 2007-May-11 15:25:51
David, that sounds like exactly what I need. Although I don't shoot the
sequences
with stepper-motor precision I do usually get satisfactory accuracy such
that the template works.
I'd love to get the script from you if you can share it with me.
I would also love to see the rotary table you made. I was looking at the
'PanoMachine' http://perso.orange.fr/panorama/panomachine_index.htm
but it's a bit more costly than I can justify.
I did 3D imaging way back with a Stereo Realist, a modified Nimslo, and
tandem SLR's
always on Ektachrome film. Can I see some of your 3D panoramas?
Alex
David Sykes wrote:
>
> 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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