Um. I installed Hugin from Ubuntu repos (Version 2009.2.0.4461, the "2010 version" isn't in official repos yet).
Opened it:
Assistant... hmmm... all right. I fed it three of Afotografer's pics... I aimed for realism, so I included some laundry into the mix:
"1. Load images..."
Three photos in, what next? Um... time to hit the "
2. Align..." button? OK... a small terminal window opens, computing computing computing (took a minute or so with this old 1 GHz lappy with 1 GB RAM), then, output:
Images are connected by 26 control points.
Mean error after optimization: 3.2 pixel, max: 17.2
Bad fit, some control points might be bad, or there are parallax or movement errors
Aha... wonder what that means in real life...
"3. Create panorama..."
Whaddayaknow... a wee cropping job, and:
(It seems that Huggin – at least the "2009 version" wants to save the end result as
.tif.)
So... 1-2-3... no rocket science needed. Which is good, because I am not a rocket scientist.
Can't comment on that (I couldn't find a
.deb package in manufacturer's pages). But no paracetamols were hurt during this quick test... and coffee consumption stayed within accepted limits – 2-3 liters per day.