Crazy what you can do with patience and autostitch ! Both picture here are made of 30 something picture. This are the "max flickr size" version so that flickr can do the thumbnails (max 15000px wide). I uploaded the originals too. They are 19800 and 22800 px wide, but have black thumbnails. Maybe someday I will dislplay them on a lot of screen using displayator.

click here to go to the original circular panorama

click here to get to the original 180° panorama

Bugs met during making of those pictures : I was using the demo of autostitch and had to set the size of the generated panorama to be between 75 and 80% of the original. Otherwise I got some out of memory message. The memory option was set to the max possible(-1.5G) and I have 2G of memory installed.
In flickr, picture with one dimension >= 15000px (or an uncompressed size >250MB) will not get miniaturized. Miniatures will be replaced by black placeholder. It seems to be a longstanding known bug. I found a 18month old thread about that bug on their forum.

I took those two pictures on monday (march the 19th 2007), a couple of days before Spring! And last week I was hopping around in T-shirt ! The flowers have been here for 2 week at least. Last week's weather was wonderful, sunny and with almost warm temperatures. And since Sunday it's been crappy: rainy or snowy, windy, cloudy. Today's weather is almost nice, with the sun peeking back. But the weather forecast says "not for long". Here are two pictures illustrating this contrast.

     
Both pictures were taken the same day, at the same place in geneva, with a 2 hours and a half interval (before and after doing the laundry ;).

UPDATE : It currently is snowing (2007, March 21 @ 9.14 am) in CERN prevessin (4 km away and 54 m higher than Geneva). Now that's Spring !!!

You can now get displayator 0.4. It introduce a new feature and a workaround for transmission errors. It's been done for some time, but I only got round to release it yesterday and post about it today.

• Aligning displayers : I added a contextual menu item in the manager so that you have two more options : align dispayers horizontally or vertically. This items affect all the displayers. It is planned that it will, someday, affect only a selection of displayers.

• Transmittion errors : Due to the fact that displayator still uses the default xmlrpc webserver, it happens that sometimes, a tile displayed in the displayer tiles is misplaced or damaged. You can re-fetch these tile by alt+click on it.

That's all for now.

Nico, out.