Autostitch

	Autostitch is a free program that takes multiple snapshots and combines them into a single paroramic image. Autostitch is remarkably easy to use. If your snapshots are rightside-up you don't need to do anything but open them from inside the program. In the following examples I specified two additional things: My snapshots were sideways. Autostitch rotated them itself. I wanted the output panoramas to be 4000 pixels wide. Autostitch is available here: http://cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html The free version of Autostitch is limited to combining a single row of snapshots. Commercial programs containing the Autostitch technology are available that can combine multiple rows (or a two-dimensional array) of snapshots into a single large image. The snapshots for these panoramas were taken May 13, 2007 on Mitchell Coleman's property on Corliss Road. Click on the links below to view the panoramas in higher resolution. The uncropped images are the Autostitch output. The edges of the uncropped images show the contortions Autostitch does to the snapshots to make everything line up. The backyard and pond from the deck This is slightly more than 180 degrees. Mitch's backyard doesn't look this wide in real life. Note the lighting change in the middle. A small cloud drifted over the sun when I took those snapshots.
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	The Missisquoi River This is slightly less than 180 degrees. The river does bend but not nearly as much as the panorama makes it appear.
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	Ruins The stream running on one side of Mitch's lot has the ruins of a stone dam on it. The dam was probably built in the mid-1800's to power an up-and-down saw mill. Pages 29, 45, and 65 of Jack C. Salisbury's book "Richford Vermont: Frontier Town" mention the large number of small sawmills in Richford in that era.
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	This is the other side of the wall above. The wall is on the right. There is evidence of stonework on the hill but this picture doesn't show it well.
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	Another wall a little bit upstream. This may have been built to force water from a contributary stream to enter the main stream earlier than it did originally.
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