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Panotools::Script is a perl module for reading/writing and 
manipulating hugin .pto project files, this 0.25 release fixes some 
bugs, adds some features, and introduces some experimental tools:

- - lens-submit is a simple tool that reads a Hugin .pto project, 
finds the first 'lens', gathers some lens and EXIF data, and 
submits it via HTTP to a collecting server. The idea is that with 
enough information it may be possible to automatically generate a 
database of lens correction parameters. To test this idea you are 
encouraged to run this tool on any or all existing Hugin projects. 
The raw data collected so far is here: 
http://bugbear.postle.net/lens.log (will be updated weekly until a 
permanent home is found).

- - gigatile is a command-line tool with the same interface as pto2mk.  
Whereas instead of creating instructions for rendering a single 
panoramic image, the project is split into a pyramid of JPEG 
tiles, which are linked using a HTML file for display in a 
web-browser.

A not so great example, this is 1.6 gigapixels: 
http://bugbear.postle.net/~bruno/photos/DSCN0879-DSCN1050/

This approach has some notable disadvantages: primarily that blended 
seams that cross tile boundaries don't line up - So only static 
scenes are practical without visible artefacts.  However it is 
probably good enough for a lot of purposes.

The advantage is that it is very scalable, there isn't any practical 
limit on the size of the panorama and rendering time can be reduced 
simply by adding more processors.

The other two new tools are helpers for gigatile:

- - entile - gigatile renders a panorama into 4096x4096 TIFF squares, 
it then uses this entile tool to split them up into a pyramid of 
256x256 JPEG files.  entile is slow and uses far too much memory, 
it could usefully be rewritten in C/C++ using vigra or some other 
image library.

- - gmaptemplate - HTML template for viewing tiled images. This tool 
creates a simple HTML page that uses the Google Maps API to 
display a panorama rendered with gigatile (contributions to 
replace this with openstreetmap or some other free solution 
welcome).

A Panotools::Script tarball will be available on CPAN soon: 
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Panotools-Script/

0.25 changes:

new tool: entile - splits images into google-maps style tiles.
new tool: gmapteplate - HTML template for viewing tiles images with 
Google Maps API.
new tool: gigatile - crude stitching of very large panoramas.
new tool: lens-submit - collect lens and EXIF data.
bugfix: pafextract was miscalculating FoV (Pablo d'Angelo).
feature: match-n-shift now calculates panorama pixel size.
feature: match-n-shift now populates white balance from EXIF data.
feature: support new Mask 'k' line in Hugin 2010.1.0.
feature: gigastart now has an 'images' target.
feature: ptofill --ignoregroups options to force matching between 
unconnected groups.

SHA1SUM: fb5410954e503900e2cc45bbdc4e58f74d290ff8  Panotools-Script-0.25.tar.gz

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Bruno
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