hugin the new year

[Net Llama!]

As I alluded to earlier in the week, I spent Christmas at the Grand 
Canyon (in northwestern Arizona).  I also drove alot around northwestern 
Arizona soaking up some amazing scenery in and around the grand canyon area.

Here are all the pictures that I took:
http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix

But I also stitched together some of the pictures above to composite 
wide (over 3000 pixels across) panoramas:
http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix/landscapes/

The first panorama was taken at the 'desert view' lookout point at the 
eastern edge of the south rim of the grand canyon just after sunrise 
(the body of water in the center is the Colorado River).

The 2nd panorama was taken from Lipan Point in the grand canyon.

The 3rd panorama was taken overlooking Navajo Point.

The 4th panorama was taken at Red Rock Canyon ( 
http://www.redrockcanyonlv.org ) 20 miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. 
  A huge wildfire had swept through a few weeks earlier, which is what 
created all the black Joshua Tree stumps.

The 5th panorama was taken looking over a 90 degree slice of horizon 
from north to east at the visitor's center of Wupatki National Monument 
( http://www.nps.gov/wupa ).  The mesa's and buttes on the distant 
horizon are the western edge of Arizona's Painted Desert.  Towards the 
extreme right of the picture on the horizon are two tall buttes (one is 
named Montezuma's Chair), which are nearly 60 miles away.

The 6th panorama was taken from the top of Doney Mountain in Wupatki 
National Monument, and is a 360 degree view.  The mountains in the 
distant horizon on the left end of the picture are the San Francisco 
mountains, which rise to over 12500 feet, and are approximately 45 miles 
away.

Now, i'm sure that you're all wondering how any of this relates to 
Linux.  The answer is that I used Linux to create all of the panoramas 
above, with 'hugin' ( http://hugin.sf.net ).  Right now, hugin is the 
only GUI available for Linux/Unix (it also runs in windows & OSX) to 
create panoramas.  Its got some rough edges, but as my panoramas 
indicate, it most definitely works and works rather well.

Best wishes to everyone in 2006.

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L. Friedman                       	       netllama at linux-sxs.org
LlamaLand		 		http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

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