[Bible joke. Q: Why did the Jews wander in the desert for 40 years? A: The men wouldn't ask for directions.]
Our stitchers still stubbornly refuse to ask for directions. Would it really be so hard to add a 'shooting grid' that lets the photographer specify roughly the directions of the views? That would surely help avoid false control points on highly symmetric scenes, and more important, would save much of the CPU time now spent uselessly looking for control points in wrong places. When the number of views is large, that can be a very great deal of CPU time indeed, as there is a combinatorial explosion of possible image pairs. I suspect the GigaPan stitcher already uses its knowledge of the shooting grid to good avantage. But you certainly don't need a robot head to create a predictable shooting pattern. The majority of panographers shoot systematically. Don't they deserve to be rewarded with faster and more-often-correct automatic alignments? Best, Tom -- 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
