Comments on: Automatic panoramas with hugin and autopano

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:03:05 +0000

Sorry, man, I nuked and paved my computer a couple months ago, and I haven’t had time to play with panoramas since. Perhaps the project website has an IRC channel or email group?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:02:57 +0000

Hi,

I’ve got the contents of this post more or less figured out, but I was wondering about automating the next step. Once I have the control points found if I can automate (using automator or applescripts or something in windows even) the process to create the final panorama. I’d like to do this because I have a pile of folders waiting to be made, so I can leave it running while I am away to compile and continue to the next file after completing. That and/ or any tips on how to keep the compilation time down would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:44:37 +0000

Wow. I’m so silly. I have Photoshop CS3 for work and didn’t even think to use it! Duh. Thanks for pointing out the obvious!

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:01:57 +0000

Since I wrote this post I purchased a Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet that came with Photoshop LE, and that does excellent panorama stitching. If you can get a copy of that, it may be an easier route for you.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:10:26 +0000

Hi Matthew,
You’ll have to forgive me if I ask stupid questions, but I’m a bit of a computer novice, who is very keen to make some nice panoramic photos without spending hours picking control points. I’ve downloaded Hugin and MacPorts from your links, but am not sure where to go from here. Your instructions are a bit too technical for me. Could you provide me with a more step-by-step dummies guide to installing this?
Cheers.

By: charaka

charaka — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:12:48 +0000

Thank you, Matthew. It worked

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:10 +0000

@Charaka: You need to follow step 1 -- install Xcode.

By: Charaka

Charaka — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:11:43 +0000

Please help me on this error. Macport is installed. But cannot install cmake. Following error appears. Thank you.

Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command ” cd “/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_cmake/work/cmake-2.6.4″ && ./configure –prefix=/opt/local –mandir=/share/man –docdir=/share/doc/cmake ” returned error 6
Command output: ———————————————
CMake 2.6-4, Copyright (c) 2007 Kitware, Inc., Insight Consortium
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Error when bootstrapping CMake:
Cannot find appropriate C compiler on this system.
Please specify one using environment variable CC.
See cmake_bootstrap.log for compilers attempted.

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Log of errors: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_cmake/work/cmake-2.6.4/Bootstrap.cmk/cmake_bootstrap.log
———————————————

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:48 +0000

Did you run “selfupdate”? I went on to a different Mac (running 10.5.6) and it seems like things are currently OK:

$ sudo port selfupdate

MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.700

The MacPorts installation is not outdated so it was not updated

$ sudo port install autopano-sift-c
--->  Fetching cmake
--->  Attempting to fetch cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/cmake
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for cmake
--->  Extracting cmake
--->  Configuring cmake
--->  Building cmake
--->  Staging cmake into destroot
--->  Installing cmake @2.6.2_0
--->  Activating cmake @2.6.2_0
--->  Cleaning cmake
--->  Fetching libpano13
--->  Attempting to fetch libpano13-2.9.12.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/libpano13
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for libpano13
--->  Extracting libpano13
--->  Configuring libpano13
--->  Building libpano13
--->  Staging libpano13 into destroot
--->  Installing libpano13 @2.9.12_0
--->  Activating libpano13 @2.9.12_0
--->  Cleaning libpano13
--->  Fetching autopano-sift-c
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for autopano-sift-c
--->  Extracting autopano-sift-c
--->  Configuring autopano-sift-c
--->  Building autopano-sift-c
--->  Staging autopano-sift-c into destroot
--->  Installing autopano-sift-c @2.4-2903_0
--->  Activating autopano-sift-c @2.4-2903_0
--->  Cleaning autopano-sift-c

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:15 +0000

I tired to install this using the terminal. I get the following:

Warning: Can’t open index file for source: rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
Error: search for portname autopano-sift-c failed: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Martins-Laptop:~ gradek$

I have MacPort installed. Running OSX 10.5

May, just boot to windows to use hugin if I can’t get this working without loosing another 4 hours of my life.