Thu 17 Aug 2006
I tried an experiment to see just how good the panoramic software was and trotted down to Grand Central mid-day and took a series of photo`s from the stairs.
I took a series of six photos from the stairs in grand central, I was curious if having people walking around in a photo would really mangle up the algorithms.. Guess what, it did. However, manually going in a fine-tuning the control points and adding some at key points and whalla, no problem getting the images to line up and spit out a nice panorama.
If you look at the image in the lower right, there is an interesting bit with two guys who seem joined and are walking in different directions, and there is one guy with his head cut off and another guy taking his place, but otherwise I am still amazed by the stichwork these programs do on photos.