Inverkip Exploramajigs, June 2011

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BenCooper

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Inverkip power station on the Clyde, an oil-fired power station that has lain mothballed for decades, is finally and very slowly being dismantled - before it goes too far, I went along with panoramic stuff to make some more explorable 360-degree views. Click on each image to open in Quicktime, and they're about 7-12Mb each.



These first two are the control room, obviously :)



Next, standing in the middle of a turbine:



A few from the turbine hall:







One of the huge boilers:



And finally up between the boilers, with a couple of huge flues.



My Flickr set has pics and other stuff from over a dozen Inverkip visits...
 
Thank you - each of these took several hours to stitch together from 12-36 images, though I'm refining my technique so might be able to automate it in future, which would be nice :)
 
Words fail me.... so I must resort to expletives... bl**dy amazing stuff!

What are you using to stitch the pix? I tried a simple 180 degree pano in Pool Park on Tuesday and all I got was 5 over exposed and totally useless crappy snappies!
 
Thanks :)

There's two bits to it - it'd take ages to go into it, but firstly you need to have the camera on a special panoramic tripod head. You can do without, but you won't be able to stitch the images perfectly.

Then to stitch the images, I have mostly been using Hugin, which is free and very powerful. I've just bought Autopano Pro as well, which seems to have some very clever features, but I'm just starting with that.

The major problem is that if you're lucky the software will stitch the images automatically for you. If not, you need to set "control points" - points on each pair of images that correspond, and that takes ages.

Then, when you're stitching at least a dozen 24-megapixel images, it takes the computer a while to chew through all the processing :)
 

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