Tiled / moasic panaroma

[Andrew John Fredricks (Phred)]

Can someone explain how to make a mosaic panorama with Hugin from this decade. I have taken a set of pictures with a rail and Hugin seams completely unable to to make the one dimensional correction and stitch them together. 

[Claudio Rocha]

I presume you are photographing flat objects using a camera mounted on a rail.

Hugin is primarily designed to work stitching panoramas taken from a single point, so it tries to project the images into a sphere. Now, when making photos of flat objects from a rail, such projection results in distorted images, so you need to change a few of the default settings for Hugin.

The most important one is to trick Hugin into working with a lens with a very small field of view, as if you were using a very long telephoto lens. So change the the lens for your images to have a 10 or 5 degree field of view. Then use custom parameters for Optimization to use Roll, tX and tY only, and disable Yaw and Pitch optimization.

Also make sure that the projection is set to rectilinear

The main procedure is outlined in this very old tutorial. The interface has changed a bit, but the functions and procedure is still the same.

https://hugin.sourceforge.io/tutorials/scans/en.shtml

here's another tutorial that might be useful

https://www.facebook.com/groups/287716734970881/posts/1632734473802427/?__cft__[0]=AZVrcEFp2iD4fd0sBezolvCtBgq6rxwJT7L5MzgwGzCyA87IedJQnoD63UadoM-mBwrUbLgKefZ3y5Ls1FaiOzjnUx2UCFqrTMItJ3THjt5WCsiPIMkAqfFMzjFrJPJGH_aFKviMK82Nsy0h8eF15Kt4&__tn__=R]-R

or

https://www.facebook.com/scott.rowed/videos/6895598280479369?idorvanity=287716734970881

[Claudio Rocha]

Here's another step by step tutorial:

 https://www.oguchi-rd.com/Accomplishment/Projects/Die%20Photo%20by%20Hugin/Making%20Map%20by%20Hugin.pdf

[Andrew John Fredricks (Phred)]

Thanks for the info.

I saw the old tutorial of stitching together the scanned print. So I was looking for settings but the interface looks different now.

It had not clicked for me that to do something flat you had to fool Hugin into doing it.

Thanks again, I'll give it another go when i get the chance.