Neat demonstration.  I presented the same question upon a small private forum I also haunt and while I was away, a friend stitched together the image as you did (just without the "watermark") making my request kinda' pointless.

Still, thank you for taking the effort to demonstrate the 2D approach is the most straightforward solution.

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