On 30 March 2010 23:03, Darko Makreshanski <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruno Postle wrote:
>> I like the idea of a view of a globe showing the entire sphere around >> the camera >> With all this info, I think remapping the photos is superfluous and >> would confuse the clarity of the feature as a diagram. Also if it was >> a simple line drawing it could be overlaid onto the panorama in >> Projection and Drag mode (again using mouse-over for visibility). > Actually once we have the setup it wouldn't be too difficult to add the > photos as well. Ok, I guess where I'm coming from is that the orthographic view is perhaps the worst way of viewing a panoramic scene possible. Not only does it turn everything inside-out, but the edges are extremely distorted and you only get to see half of the scene at any one time. I'll attach a diagram showing the alternative of how this view could work. The globe represents the entire scene, the irregular blue patch represents the area with coverage from photos, the red rectangle is the current panorama 'canvas' and the white rectangle is the part of the canvas that is cropped. This doesn't need to be interactive or spin-able, you could map the actual photos to this, but I'm not sure it would make it any clearer. >> We have a nice distinction between 'modes' that are switched by >> changing tabs and 'actions' that are widgets within those tabs, but >> there is a Panorama tab which is a mixture of tools that don't fit >> anywhere else, e.g. the 'show points' mode could be another tab, but >> doesn't have enough functionality to justify it > In general I think that there should be only two tabs, the layout tab, and a > normal tab. Then in the normal tab you would have options to choose a tool > or for example enable 'indentify' mode etc. In this way I could combine for > example using the drag tool and have the control points displayed. Hugin is already overly complex, and users don't appreciate the possibilities of infinite combinations of options. Just because we can show the control points in Drag mode, it doesn't mean we should - I would rather enhance Show Points into a separate mode that also highlights areas of the panorama that have overlaps, and then integrate it properly with the Control Points table somehow. While James was developing the layout mode it was possible to combine Drag with the Layout mode (which I thought was very cool at the time), but it had no practical purpose so James removed it and Hugin is better as a result. -- Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
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