Yuv, My intention was not make comparisons. I just shared my experience. I have spend time to learn hugin and thanks for this group for all the support. I had no intent to disgrace Hugin or team :)
Yuv, I really appreciate your feedbacks. Hugin is ahead of other softwares in term of final image quality as well:) On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Yuval Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Emad, > > On September 25, 2010 01:41:14 am Emad ud din Btt wrote: > > Its open source but I think this feature is for developers. > > that's a misconception. Open Source has more advantages for the users than > for the developers. Contrast the history of Freehand [0] with that of > Blender > [1] and think of the users who have spent hours/days/week to develop > expertise > in Freehand and what their time-investment is worth now. > > > > Normal user will not want to go and add %p %o %s in autopano-sift > > parameters for multirow pano. He will want to just load pics and get pano > > Your definition of 'normal' reflects your wishes. Hugin is for every user > what > they make it for themselves and there is no such thing as a 'normal user'. > > The best matching products for a user with the wish described above is > Autopano Pro. "Just load pics and get pano". No other software known to > me, > commercial or Free, matches this sentence better than Autopano Pro. It was > designed with exactly this use case in mind. > > > > I hope in one year time it will at par > > with commercial softwares. > > I do not like comparisons. That said, depends on what you measure, Hugin > is > already "at par" with commercial software on some metrics. On other > metrics > it is "ahead" and on other metrics it is "behind". The question is: which > metric is more important to you. If it is an automated process with as > little > human intervention as possible, go with Autopano Pro - it is ahead and will > stay ahead for many years to come. If your metric is "detailed and precise > assisted control of image placement on the panosphere or on the mosaic > plane", > Hugin is ahead. It all depends on what your need is. > > If you need to drive fast from A to B, why torture yourself with a bus when > you can have a sportscar? on the other hand, if you need to get a lot of > gear > from A to B, why torture yourself with a sportscar when you can have a > truck? > > Rather than setting yourself up for disappointment, choose the right tool > for > you. > > > > I am a windows user and I feel there is lack of technical resource person > > for windows users. Most of hugin team is not using windows. Thats why it > > creates issues. Is there anyone looking after windows builds that they > are > > accurate and uptodate? or we have to shift to Ubuntu ....lolzzz > > would you still feel there is a lack of technical resource person for > windows > users if that person would charge you 60$/hour for her support/advice? > > there are enough people looking after windows builds - actually from the > names > I've seen flying over the past few weeks on the list more than for any > platform. But they have to deal with issues that are solved automatically > by > more efficient platforms. I can tell from my own experience that building > and > packaging Hugin for Windows was much more painful than doing it it for > Kubuntu. > > That said, I am not advocating that you shift to Ubuntu. Use what works > best > in your situation. > > Yuv > > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Carl, > > > > > > I've just checked the last Hugin image I installed, which was hugin- > > > mac-2010-1.0.0 from early June. I know from the list that things have > > > changed since then so perhaps I should give Hugin another try, when I > > > have some spare moments. > > > > > > On Sep 24, 1:05 pm, Yuval Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On September 24, 2010 05:34:05 am kfj wrote: > > > > > special thanks to Yuval Levy, you have really made an effort to > work > > > > > things out for me so I can take heart, get over my frustration and > > > > > maybe end up doing something productive. > > > > > > > > happy to read my words were helpful to you. I am sure you will do > > > > > > something > > > > > > > productive, whether with PTgui, Hugin, or whatever other software you > > > > > > will > > > > > > > apply your brains to. > > > > > > > > > I'm well willing to struggle up > > > > > the learning curve to get things working. And I'll look into what I > > > > > can do to make the problems that bug me go away. > > > > > > > > You're already on the right path. Fire up questions to this list, > > > > you'll often get help and advice from people who have "been there > done > > > > that". > > > > > > > > Even if you're going to "unchartered territories", you'll get help > and > > > > > > support > > > > > > > along the way, as you can witness in your recent thread about > building > > > > > > libpano > > > > > > > on MinGW. > > > > > > > > Yuv > > > > > > > > signature.asc > > > > > > > > < 1KViewDownload > > > > > > -- > > > 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]<hugin-ptx%[email protected]> > <hugin-ptx%2bunsubscr...@googlegrou > > > ps.com> For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx > > [0] http://freefreehand.org/ > [1] http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x115.html > -- *Emaad* www.flickr.com/emaad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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