Last week two of my three room mates returned. With their help we’ve managed to unpack more than 95% of the house. It really feels much more like a home now. As I have time to make them I’ll post views of the other rooms in the house. The kitchen was one of the first rooms to get fully unpacked, here it is.
The program I’m using to create these views is Hugin. It is a gui front end for Panorama Tools, and it makes it so much easier to stitch together photos and it would otherwise be. Although, it does still take some time to setup, and it takes hours of processing to generate the full resolution source images, which then take time even to shrink down.
The setup is really identifying points in the images that are the same spot in real space. It has an excellent tool to do this, but realistically you need 5-15 points for every combination of two images that overlap. There are 17 images in the above composite. They don’t all overlap, but its still quite a few points to do manually. For simple constructions it will do this automatically fairly well, but on complex setups I find I get much better results if I do it all manually. One wrong point can cause an unsightly distortion. For example, on the one for my room, I started from the base points and added my own to shore things up a bit. There are distortions in both, that I could remove with more time, but this one does look better. I’m somewhat disappointed that I don’t have any displays that are even remotely close to being able to show the whole image at more than a fraction of the real resolution.