| Stitching types |
Cylinders, Spheres and Cubes - just about any arrangement of images
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| No. stitchable rows |
unlimited
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| Supported lens types |
Rectilinear and fisheye as well as panoramic camera images and images from parabolic mirrors. (Note latest versions of PanoTools no longer support circular fisheye lenses)
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| Minimum focal length |
Recent versions do not support fisheyes wider than 160 degrees. Can stitch images of different focal lengths (and lens types)
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| Source file formats |
MacOS: TIFF, PICT, PNG, JPEG, + almost any format through the quicktime importer, (BMP, GIF, PSD,...). Mac-version also supports 48bit images (TIFF/PNG). Windows verson also supports BMP. Linux version also supports PPM.
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| Supported source image orientations |
Any arrangement of images
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| Correct linear distortion |
yes
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| Stitch greyscale images |
yes
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| Lens selection |
Specify field of view. The Optimizer can determine the lens used, but only if an approximation is supplied first.
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| Source Image adjustment |
Colour/contrast can be matched during optmization by using the k option in the script
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| Alignment process |
Optimizer optimizes the alignment after you first provide a detailed config file with coordinates for image positions/flags.
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| Automatable |
Requires a script to run, so inherently the settings can be used to stitch a similar set of images
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| Stitched image adjustment |
Specify output size, remap images to convert between projection types
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| Output options |
QuickTime VR Cylinder, iMove PAN, IVR (cylindrical or spherical; plugin or java applet ready)
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| Output file formats |
PICT (Mac), BMP (PC), PSD (separate or merged layers, with or without masks for blending), iMove PAN, IVR (cylindrical or spherical; plugin or java applet ready), QTVR (cylindrical only), JPEG
PNG, TIFF, 3DMF (3D Stereo - not for panoramas!)
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