On January 3, 2011 09:49:38 am 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:
you were looking at the wrong place. It is not in the preview/layout which *displays* the result. It is in the images browser where the images are loaded and arranged. > > 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. of course most of the time they are already arranged by the time sequence, and the multi-row strategy in Hugin is pretty robust. But even that has its limits: - when I trigger a single frame twice (e.g. there was a moving object in the first frame) and so there is an invalid image in the sequence - when images come from multiple cameras and thus are not in a sequence. once the sequence is defined in the images browser (and the step can be skipped if the image sequence is enough), distributing them regularly on the panosphere is a piece of cake, and it actually help optimization more than CP detection. I have plenty of projects that do not optimize well when the input images all start from (0,0), but optimize perfectly when the images are evenly distributed. can I live without the 'grid'? yes I can. But I have never used a robotic pano head nor have I been through the experiences of those asking for it. And since it does not cost much to have it, why not? Yuv
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