Hi, a friend has provided me with 3 *fixed* wide-angle shots of an aurora display and I am trying to stitch it into a single circular fisheye image for projection in a planetarium dome. I almost have it:
https://sites.google.com/site/alistargazing/articles/aurora-pano-creation-1. 3 cameras, one pointing N, one pointing ESE, the other pointing WSW, all taking a picture at the same time (within a second). One camera has a different lens (of course Hugin detects it!).
The move/drag seems to let me change the scale, but it really should be fixed based on the lens parameters.Is there any way to tell hugin this is a zenith point and that one is horizon, 90 deg away, because I know exactly where they are? Am I looking at this the wrong way?
The final goal is to make a time-lapse of the ~ 600 sets of 3-images. I am hoping that I can stitch one trio very carefully, save its parameters, then (say in a perl script on a Windows box) provide those parameters for the next trio and the next trio, and next trio... I may be naive about Hugin and its underlying components, but it seems to me for this situation all the following sets simply need to be merged based on the parameters from the initial image set since the cameras do not move: the zenith and horizons remain stationary. With the aurora moving, I would want to turn off any control points - the individual image X,Y would *always* map to the final image x,y. Doing each trio by hand seems crazy, because I would never be able to repeat the y,p,r of each. Are these the parameters that need to be captured and fed back? If so, how?
Regards,
Alister.
P.S. I am retiring later this year, so I hope I can take your advice/ideas and pay it forward by contributing something to the project.