On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:15:37PM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > >> Without color management or deep color, gimp is a complete toy for > >>serious, accurate photo manipulation. Hugin can work with 16-bit TIFF > >>files, so it doesn't have these limitations. > > > >Hugin, though, technically isn't a panorama creator - it's a graphical > >front end to the Panorama Tools libraries. It's far more convenient > >to use than writing PT assembler scripts yourself, but it depends on > >PT Stitcher. Both packages are available on a variety of platforms, > >although Helmut Dersch (the original author of Panorama Tools) is no > >longer showing a download link for the native library on his pages. > > > True. In fact, I remember some issues with the Helmut Dersch > libraries/utilities. Not all (any?) of it is open-source... binary only > in some cases. . .
I believe at least some of the issues were caused by the company that claims to have a patent on recreating panoramas from fisheye images; they didn't want Helmut distributing a package that can do this. > Frankly, I cannot fathom how so many gimp developers are not only > ignorant of the deep color and color management requirement, but are even > openly hostile to the suggestions that it isn't perfect already. I've > been tracking the "progress" in these realms for over 2 years now. Pretty > sad. Bottom line is that all the script-kiddie plugins and hodgepodge > code from the original version would take a miracle to rewrite in > arbitrary precision. It's an all too common response. Show somebody up by hinting that the position they are promoting isn't quite as good as they suggest, and the usual reaction is overt hostility. Have you ever tried to tell somebody that the "PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!!!!!!" email they sent you is, in fact, a load of absolute rubbish?
