Build Free Panoramic Photographs with AutoStitch
You might think that the tool I’m talking about today is not relevant for this blog, but who knows? Maybe you’ll need it one day. Anyway, I’ve recently discovered AutoStitch, an automatic 2D image stitcher, thanks to a reader of Fred Langa’s newsletter (read his review). Check for example this panoramic image of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris created by AutoStitch without any intervention from my part.
AutoStitch, developed at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is truly amazing. This has been years since I’ve been that impressed by a piece of software. It works very simply: you select a collection of pictures and AutoStich analyses their contents and returns you one (or several) panoramic images.
You can download AutoStitch for free from this page containing lots of graphics (780 KB) and try it for yourself.
Once you start to play with it (no Linux/Mac version yet!), you’ll be hooked. So if you decide to use AutoStich and are happy with the panoramic photographs it generates for you, please post a comment below with a pointer to your nicest images.
