Spaced Out ::

Just back from the European Geosciences Union in Vienna (more on that in later blog entries), but thought I would post a vertical panorama of St. Stephen’s Cathedral. This is using Microsoft’s Zoom.it - I was surprised at how hard it was to find an image streaming service - this is a first attempt to see how it works.

Shot use a Nikon D700 with f1.8 85mm prime lens in landscape and then stitched together using Hugin. Hugin was got substantially better over the years and moved on from manual control points to stitch imagery to use a SIFT (scale invariant feature transform) algorithm, as used in Structure from Motion photogrammetry, to do this.

ZOOM IN - the detail is astonishing even with this straightforward setup!!