I realise that Image Composite Editor didn’t have Photosynth integration when you made your synth, but you can actually upload panoramas to Photosynth now as real panoramas, rather than trying to make a synth into a panorama (which it was never truly built to be). You can download ICE from Microsoft Research here: http://bit.ly/microsoftice
Don’t get me wrong; I love actual photosynths (probably even more than I love panoramas), but they were designed to be collections of photos taken from many different positions around a subject or subjects.
Photo input for a good panorama is really almost the opposite: a collection of photos taken from a single location of everything visible from that one point of view.
A photosynth can certainly handle photos shot like a panorama as long as each photo overlaps its neighbours by about two thirds, but if a panorama is literally all that you shot, perhaps using ICE to upload it as a panorama instead of a synth is the way to go to do the photography justice.
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1 Nate Lawrence // Nov 24, 2010 at 12:50 am
Hi there!
I realise that Image Composite Editor didn’t have Photosynth integration when you made your synth, but you can actually upload panoramas to Photosynth now as real panoramas, rather than trying to make a synth into a panorama (which it was never truly built to be). You can download ICE from Microsoft Research here: http://bit.ly/microsoftice
Don’t get me wrong; I love actual photosynths (probably even more than I love panoramas), but they were designed to be collections of photos taken from many different positions around a subject or subjects.
Photo input for a good panorama is really almost the opposite: a collection of photos taken from a single location of everything visible from that one point of view.
See this famous synth of a beach buggy by SimonJGreen to see what I mean: http://bit.ly/1970vwbeachbuggy
A photosynth can certainly handle photos shot like a panorama as long as each photo overlaps its neighbours by about two thirds, but if a panorama is literally all that you shot, perhaps using ICE to upload it as a panorama instead of a synth is the way to go to do the photography justice.
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