Hi Mark You have put your finger on a major weakness in Hugin's stitching flow.
There should be an "alignment" tab that lets you see and adjust the layout of photos, whether or not it has been "optimized". And there should be some alignment procedures in the software, that operate at a higher level than just minimizing the average squared distance for all control points. Some progress is being made on these needs, but it has not yet come together as a complete package offering a smooth user experience. There is a new graphical "layout" facility, and eventually the "panomatic" control point finder will use layout information to improve the quality of its control points. But I don't think anybody is working on high level alignment algorithms at present. It would be nice if Hugin could do automatic alignment as well as PTGui does. I don't know what is inside, but it is clear from the outside that PTGui's alignment algorithm has 4 or 5 major steps, the last of which is optimization. However PTGui doesn't offer the user any control over this procedure, or allow one to specify the starting layout. Both of which could ultimately make for quicker and better alignments. Cheers, Tom Some progress On Jun 22, 9:31 am, Markkk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > First: many thanks to all the contributers of hugin and tools. Great > achievment! > > Just a small usability issue: it took me a long time to figure out, > which of the tabs corresponds to the "2. Align..." step of the > Assistant. > > From my [foreign language] understanding, the word "optimise" denotes > "further refinement". An act of improving an otherwise complete > result. A step that could even be left out for a crude first look > (which obviously is not the case here). > > Kepts dismissing that tab as "yeah, we can optimise later, where the > heck is alignment?" ;-) > > -Mark -- 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
