lux version 1.0.8 released!
This release fixes several bugs and adds new features. The most notable
new feature is 'snap-to-stitch', which detects when the viewer is at
rest, and then launches a background job to do a 'proper' stitch - or
exposure fusion, when in hdr blending mode - of the current view, which
may take some time and replaces the current view once it's ready.
At the same time, there's now a heuristic looking at the images in a PTO
and determining from their relative positions and Ev values what
blending mode should best be used. This heuristic is on by default, you
can still manually override by passing '--blending=...' on the command
line. Three blending modes can be chosen automatically:
'ranked' for 'normal' panoramas
'hdr' for exposure brackets with varying Ev
'quorate' for serial shots with constant Ev
The last mode is for deghosting and removes outliers from serial images.
When doing 'source-like snapshots' of PTO-based views, the default is
now to use the information in the PTO's p-line to set the size,
projection, and cropping of the output. So if you're viewing, e.g., a
panorama in lux, and press 'Shift+P', you should get output which is
very similar to what hugin would have produced as blended output.
lux does some things differently - it does not do seam optimization, but
it does tele inserts without the need for masking: if you have images
with several different hfov values in the PTO, it will put images with
smaller hfov in front of other images. This is really nice to 'patch in'
tele shots.
All in all, using lux for PTO input should be simple now - normally,
just opening the PTO with lux should find the right mode. Keep in mind,
though, that lux only knows a subset of PTO (e.g. it does *not* know
translation parameters) and it will just ignore what it doesn't know,
rather than reject it. And don't be impatient when a view takes some
time to 'snap to stitch' - especially when many images are visible at
the same time. Finally, keep in mind that lux is memory-hungry with the
default settings, and if your PTO has many - or large - images, you may
be better off with --build_pyramids=no or even --squash=1.
Kay
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