You might think that the tool I’m talking about today is not relevant here, but who knows? Maybe you’ll need it one day, for instance to illustrate a real ’smart mob.’

Anyway, I’ve recently discovered AutoStitch, an automatic 2D image stitcher, thanks to a reader of Fred Langa’s newsletter (read his review). AutoStitch, developed at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is truly amazing.

This has been years since I was 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 yourself. Once you play with it (no Linux/Mac version yet!), you’ll be hooked. This overview includes a panoramic image of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris created by AutoStitch.

Now, smart mobbers, what will you do with AutoStitch?

You might think that the tool I’m talking about today is not relevant here, but who knows? Maybe you’ll need it one day, for instance to illustrate a real ’smart mob.’
Anyway, I’ve recently discovered AutoStitch, an automatic 2D image stitcher, thanks to a reader of Fred Langa’s newsletter (read his review). AutoStitch, developed at the [...]