Not as complicated as one might seem. There are many programs that ask for table sizes. This is essentially a table
Dialog: How many rows & columns Which direction Etc. The other option is to present a table layout. It's then easy to mark each cell in the table as row/column, set the direction, set the starting row, etc. Rows with different number of photos sets would have empty cells where the rows were shorter. Comparison is a good measuring stick to be subject to, unless the project is so creative and so groundbreaking it becomes the measuring stick. Even the simplest stitchers have layout options, direction, rotation, etc. Dale On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 14:49 +0000, Bruno Postle wrote: > On Sun 02-Jan-2011 at 22:15 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > > >> I see very little value in a wizard that asks you a number of rows > >> and columns, this will only add complication to the GUI and won't > >> help a significant proportion of people who do seriously large > >> panoramas. > > > >and yet there is demand for that? > > People ask for it. But we had a determined attempt to design a GUI > for it as part of James's Layout Summer of Code project and > immediately encountered so many special cases that it would be the > most complex interface in the whole software. Some of the issues: > > Different numbers of photos in each row is normal (actually it's > preferred for spherical panoramas). > > Left to right, or right to left, or up and down sequences are all > valid. > > Zig-zagging sequences are valid and preferable for partial > panoramas. > > Middle-row first is almost always preferable to starting top-left. > > All this is why the multi-row procedure exists in Hugin, in > principle it deals with all these cases automatically without a GUI. > > -- > Bruno > -- 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 hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
