Panono stitching solution.

[Herwig N]

Panono, the Berlin 360° camera company filed for insolvency yesterday.
As they offered an automatic stitching in the cloud, many owners are worried that this service will be discontinued, leaving everybody with a big problem.

Would it be possible to find an easy solution for this via ptgui? Templates or special procedures?
Joest, what do. think about this?

Herwig Niggemann.

See you in Vienna.

[sirflor]

Maybe if the Panono-company will stop business completely, 

the stiching-software will be sold?

I have tried to stich the Panono-photos with PtGui without any success.

I am looking forward to a solution. 

PtGui would be perfect for me, I use it all the time for may fisheye-lens-panos.

[Erik Krause]

Am 19.05.2017 um 19:51 schrieb Herwig N:
> Would it be possible to find an easy solution for this via ptgui? Templates or special procedures?

There where several requests for stitching panono images in the past,
most successfully solved. See:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ptgui/Panono

One difficulty is the somehow weird pattern of the images, but this can
be easily managed with a template. The main problem is parallax, as for
all multi camera rigs.

--
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

[John Houghton]

On Friday, May 19, 2017 at 6:51:10 PM UTC+1, Herwig N wrote:

Templates or special procedures?

As Erik has recommended, templates are the key to getting a reasonable stitch with relative ease.  You need to shoot a special template project in a large venue (to minimize parallax) that has lots of detail in all directions for control point generation.  If you can pop along to the Sistine Chapel, say, that would be a good example of an ideal venue!  Vast expanses of featureless blue sky or white ceiling are to be avoided at all costs since you will end up with orphan images (without control points).  The stitching in PTGui must then take account of the fact that the images are shot with 36 different lenses, so some degree of individual lens parameter processing will probably be needed. Having generated a good stitch, the template can then be applied to subsequent sets of images and you should be able to go straight to the Create Panorama option without the need for control points and optimization. The latter will still be a fine tuning option if you care to regard the template application as an effective replacement for the Align to Grid function.

John