Planar development of an image on a cylinder: is this possible?

[Chibi BERU (ちびべる)]

Hello,
I want to create a planar image using various pictures of an image on a cylinder, taken from various angles.
Is this possible with Paul?
If not, could it be possible to add this feature on a future version?

Does someone knows an app that does this?

As an example, I put here 5 pictures:

pict 1 + pict 2 + pict 3 + pict 4 => result

(I made the result.jpeg file in Photoshop. (it took me quite a long time(too long)

Many thanks in advance

Bertrand

[gmitzner at googlemail.com]

Maybe PTGUI could be able to stitch the images but this is step 2.
STEP1 would be to create all images taken from exactly the same distance, enlighting and with a 90° angle to the surface of the cylinder.
My first thought was to use a flatbed-scanner(line) and either rotate the cylinder in the exact same speed as the scannerline moves forward on the flatbed-glass (requires a motor/belt-driven system which can be adjusted 100% exactly)
OR to FIX the scannerline and to rotate the cylinder in front of this line in a speed that fits the speed of the scannerline-moving-speed means: the scannerline scan-speed .

With no perfect scanning / photography you will not achieve perfect results.

[chibiberu “ちびべる”]

Thanks for your reply.

OK. I can do what you said : take photos at the exact same distance of the subject and and with a 90° angle to the surface of the cylinder.. This is not such a big issue to me.

So, let's assume that step 1 has been completed (If you need it, I can get a set of photos taken under the conditions you describe, and post it here). Does the current version of PTgui allow step 2 to be produced?
Furthermore, the set of photos that I posted in my previous message were not only taken by hand, but the object was not perfectly cylindrical. First of all, we can forget about this type of object that is not perfectly cylindrical, which, moreover, should represent less than 1% of the objects that I have to photograph.