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Panoramic Image Stitching Tools for Unix?
jbuberel asks: "I just got myself a fancy new Canon Powershot S400 camera. One of it's nifty features is it's 'Panoramic Assist' mode that helps you line up a series of images that can later be stitched together to form one larger panoramic image. Of course the software that ships with the camera to do the stitching is Windows-only. After spending some time probing freshmeat.net and google.com, I came across one dead project, and another relatively academic project who's tools are largely undocumented. So are there any up-to-date tools for composing panoramic photos in Unix? With so many digital photo afficianados out there, I was surprised there wasn't an easy-to-use GIMP plugin for this."
Check the archives of Apple's QTVR Mailing List - this question comes up all the time, and the pros and cons of every existing image stitching program for every operating system have been discussed at great depth many times.
You might want to try Pano Tools if you can track down a copy, I've heard good things about them, but I think there was a problem with iPix claiming they infringed on a patent related to unwrapping spherical images.
Personally, I use Vr Worx 2.1 for stitching together panoramas, and making simple QTVR scenes. I've been very happy with it. It does only run under OSX, so it may not be suitable for your needs.
The comparametric project *has* a GIMP plugin. Its there in the download (or it was last time I looked a year and a half ago)