Hey all. Now that hugin recently switched to Mercurial for Code revision, I thought I could try something fun with it: Recently I stumblede over gource [1] a nice tool for the visualization of sourcecode. I've used gource to visualize the progress of my PhD-Thesis ([2], which was handed in a week ago btw) and thought I'd do this for hugin. It turned out to be a little bit of a challenge, but let me walk through to the end-result:
On OS X it's pretty easy to install all the necessary things to make the resulting movie, just make sure you've installed MacPorts [3] and issue $ sudo port install mercurial ffmpeg gource in Terminal.app to install the necessary stuff. Then drink a coffee, because this takes a long time :) Using a simple $ hg clone http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/hugin/hugin hugin in a directory of choice downloads hugin's source code. Again, do this in the Terminal.app. "Cd" into hugins directory and enter the following command: gource -800x600 --disable-progress --stop-at-end --bloom-multiplier 1.25 -a 0.05 --output-ppm-stream - | ffmpeg -y -b 3000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -vpre default hugin.mp4 This command instructs gource to make a 800x600 pixel movie with some tweaks, outputs this to a ppm-stream and converts this stream with ffmpeg to a resulting movie, hugin.mp4. Go and have another coffee, since this can take even longer than the command above... After you've marveled at the nearly 3 GB, two-hour (!) long movie (or maybe not :) you wonder how to present this movie. Fiddling around with iMovie [4] in the end you get this: http://vimeo.com/12442226 It's beautiful! My way of saying "Thank you" to all the developers and coders of hugin. You've done a great job, I love to use hugin. Keep it up! Greetings from Switzerland Habi [1]: http://code.google.com/p/gource/ [2]: http://habi.gna.ch/2010/05/14/codevisualisierung-mit-gource-so-arbeitete-ich-an-meiner-diss/ [3]: http://www.macports.org/ [4]: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/. The fiddling with iMovie involved conversion of the movie to alter its speed, since iMovie can only speed up to 2000%, which was not enough to go from +2 hours to 4 minutes in one step. Since I've had a nice song as a background, I had to to multiple exports and imports to speed the movie up to the necessary 4.5 minutes, -- 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
