Thanks for all you people for your hardwork...........Much appreciated. These updates looks very good indeed.
Regards, Emaad On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Bruno Postle <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone responsible for this release! > > Hugin-2010.2.0 release notes > > Translated versions of these notes can be found here: > http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/ > > Hugin is a panorama stitcher and more. > > Changes since 2010.0.0 > > This is our second release in 2010. It delivers some major new > features, completes integration of projects from the 2009 Google > Summer of Code, and includes many general improvements. > > Layout mode > > The Hugin Fast Preview window visualises your panorama and lets you > change the project by dragging and clicking. This release introduces > an extra mode for this preview that shows the entire project as a > diagram with colour-coded lines connecting each of the photographs. > > Now with a glance you can see where the project is ok and where > there are problems if it isn't quite right. Just click on any > connection and Hugin jumps to the Control Points tab to edit that > pair of photos. > > Masking > > Hugin uses multiresolution seam blending to join photos invisibly by > smoothing colours and brightness. Controlling the location of this > seam is now much easier with the new Mask tab, which instead of > requiring you to place the seam itself, lets you just indicate the > areas of photos that you do and don't want to be part of the > finished panorama - The seam itself then gets placed intelligently > using the remaining overlapping areas. > > Masks can be saved and reused in new projects, so objects that > appear again and again like tripod heads can be easily excluded. > > Mosaics > > For a stitched panorama you shoot photos in different directions but > from a single location, Hugin will happily assemble these into a > complete scene. Now Hugin has an alternative mosaic mode — You can > take photos of a planar object such as a floor, painting, or mural > from any position, direction or angle, and Hugin will stitch them > seamlessly just as it does with a normal panorama. > > Linked bracketing > > Hugin allows you to shoot exposure bracketed photos and panoramas, > it will automatically combine them with exposure fusion or HDR > merging into a single image that has the best areas of each photo in > the stack. Hugin uses the same alignment process as with panoramas > so even hand-held bracketing works perfectly. > > Photographers who use quality tripods can now skip this alignment > stage by telling Hugin that photos in a bracketed stack are linked > and share the same view. > > Control point detector modes > > Hugin uses plugin tools called control point detectors to > automatically match features between photos. Previous versions of > Hugin relied on the detector entirely, but now Hugin can make > intelligent detector choices based on knowledge of the panorama. > > So Hugin can now match the photos in a multi-row panorama more > efficiently and with less error by breaking the job into separate > tasks, panoramas consisting of bracketed stacks can be automatically > identified and Hugin will switch to using appropriate matching > tools. > > Another new feature is that panoramas can be approximately aligned > by dragging the photos around in the preview or using a template, > the control point detector can then be asked to only check > overlapping pairs of photos instead of all possible combinations of > photos — This speeds things up and reduces the chances of false > matches. > > New lens types > > Hugin supports photos taken with a wide range of 'normal' and > fisheye lenses, and can fine-tune for variation of distortion from > these standard types. With this release support has been added for > orthographic, stereographic and equisolid lenses. > > Migration to Mercurial > > Development of Hugin sourcecode has switched from Subversion to > Mercurial to better support parallel development and to reduce > dependency on Sourceforge infrastructure. > > Languages > > Most of the translations have been updated for this release. > > Other improvements > > This release has the usual bugfixes, adds minor features, and > provides some more command-line tools for scripting panorama > projects. > > Control point generators > > Hugin doesn't yet ship with a 'Patent Free' control point generator. > So you either need to pick control points manually - Not as > difficult as it sounds - or install and configure one of the > following control-point generators as 'plug-ins': > > * autopano-sift-C > * panomatic > * libpanomatic > * match-n-shift > * Autopano-SIFT > * Autopano freeware version > > Upgrading > > Upgrading from previous versions of Hugin should be seamless. If you > do have problems with old settings, these can be reset in the > Preferences by clicking 'Load defaults'. > > For users compiling from source: note that the minimum version of > wxWidgets supported is now 2.7.0, libpano13 needs to be at least > 2.9.17, and that Hugin requires GLEW the OpenGL Extension Wrangler > Library, freeglut the OpenGL utility toolkit, and libGLU the OpenGL > utility library. > > Support for the legacy libpano12 library has been discontinued. > > See the README and INSTALL_cmake files for more information. > > Thanks to all the contributors to this release and members of the > hugin-ptx mailing list, too many to mention here. > > Hugin can be found at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ > > Hugin sourcecode can be downloaded from sourceforge: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/ > > SHA1SUM: f0676f28cd3fbebcf4086f55af7cf09566772899 hugin-2010.2.0.tar.gz > > This release is identical to 2010.2.0_rc2 > equivalent to hg branch 2010.2 -r 4431:d8ce0ba947cc > > -- > Bruno > -- *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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