My brother was down here in Canberra last weekend and showed me a very fun photography tool: hugin. It makes it relatively easy to stitch a series of photographs together into a panorama.

To test it out and play with some of its features, I took a series of photos around our living room. Here you can see the 8 photos from my camera, and the resulting panorama that hugin produced. Hugin not only moves the images around, but adjusts their rotation and barrel distortion to best line up control points that you identify on adjacent images. It uses enblend to give almost seamless stitching. Read the rest of this entry »

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