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Wait so is stiching removed from WLPG? Or does this complement and expand upon the built-in stitching? Anyway, looks awesome...
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Looks great, thanks for the news guys.
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The HDView team answered the 360 silverlight issue: If the pano is a 360, then our Silverlight code will do a continuous...
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Image Composite Editor Released

Posted Sep 23 2008, 07:54 PM by John OBrien with 6 comment(s)

ICE, a technology behind Windows Live Photo Gallery advanced panoramic image stitching was released today. You can download the x86 here and the x64 here.

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We have seen this technology in Windows Live Photo Gallery for some time now and more recently inside Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight.

Matt Uyttendaele has the lowdown announcing this as the best image stitching tool shipped to date:

  • A GPU accelerated orientation adjustment tool.  Sometimes the automatic stitching software doesn't quite get the viewing direction correct, or perhaps you want to use a rectilinear projection instead of a cylindrical projection.  This new tool allows you to interactively make these adjustments. 
  • 360 blending support.  Our fast poisson blend technique now creates a seamless 360 blend.
  • Output to Photoshop layers.
  • Create an HD View web page.
  • Create a Silverlight Deep Zoom web page, including new 360 support in our Silverlight application.
  • Integration with both the Windows Shell and the next version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, so that you can quickly launch a new stitching project.

    • I fired up a 360 degree panorama in Vista64 and found the new application very fast and accurate. Take it for a spin yourself! Bonus points for the person that works out how to enable the “new 360 support in our Silverlight application”

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    on 09-23-2008 6:18 AM

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    John OBrien wrote re: Image Composite Editor Released
    on 09-23-2008 8:40 PM

    The HDView team answered the 360 silverlight issue:

    If the pano is a 360, then our Silverlight code will do a continuous scroll in the horizontal direction.  If you aren't seeing this behavior then please have a quick look in the generated html.   There should be a script block with the following elements:

           thetaMin="0"

           thetaMax="360"

    It turns out I had "auto-cropped" the image and these settting were slightly off, just update to 0 and 360 an your good to go :)

    BTNH Fan wrote re: Image Composite Editor Released
    on 09-23-2008 10:14 PM

    Looks great, thanks for the news guys.

    tophtucker wrote re: Image Composite Editor Released
    on 09-23-2008 11:51 PM

    Wait so is stiching removed from WLPG? Or does this complement and expand upon the built-in stitching?

    Anyway, looks awesome. I'm liking this add-on thing...

    LiveSide - News blog wrote HD View: ICE, Photoshop Plugin, And Hdmake Udpates
    on 10-20-2008 5:10 PM

    Following the Deep Zoom Composer and the PhotoZoom website , ICE (Image Composite Editor) and the HD

    LiveSide - News blog wrote HD View: ICE, Photoshop Plugin, And Hdmake Updates
    on 10-20-2008 5:15 PM

    Following the Deep Zoom Composer and the PhotoZoom website , ICE (Image Composite Editor) and the HD

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