On Sat 24-Sep-2011 at 00:41 -0700, kfj wrote:
Hugin gives a clear indication of what it's doing, you just have to
watch the stitcher's output to see that it's putting together stacks
with sets of images which you haven't specified.
This output is useful, but it is not suitable for a GUI tool. It
isn't acceptable to have to watch the entire stitching stage just to
figure out how Hugin is handling bracketed stacks and exposure
layers.
Actually the automatic detection of overlap for stacks works very
well, it was relatively recently implemented and replaced a much
cruder overlap test (which nobody ever complained about either).
I did not say that the overlap detection was in any way flawed. My
criticism is with the use of the detected overlap. And that something
works well is no reason it can't be improved.
The first step here is for the tool to tell you what it is doing, it
is pointless having extra switches and levers if there is no
feedback to tell you what they do - This would be a real disservice
to users, making the software actually worse. Hugin already has too
many options that are completely opaque.
(A solution might be to do something different if stack numbers have
been manually assigned, but this still needs some way of showing the
user what is happening)
When the overlap threshold was first implemented (there is a similar
hard-coded EV threshold to establish exposure layers), we discussed
making it an option, but noboby ever asked for it - and it wasn't
implemented because Hugin needs to move in the direction of just
doing the right thing rather than adding GUI clutter every time a
new feature is added.
Since you know of the automatism, would you be so kind as to point me
to the location in the code where the 70 percent is specified? I've
searched for files with 70, but there are quite a few (I hope they
aren't hardcoding other bits I'll later stumble upon ;-)
There are _lots_ of hard-coded bits. This is the '0.7' in
getHDRStacks() in
src/hugin_base/algorithms/panorama_makefile/PanoramaMakefilelibExport.cpp
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Bruno
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