[hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-28 Thread Aron H
On the Assistant tab, I load my images. Then on the Images tab, I select each image, and in the Image Orientation entry at the bottom, I type in my estimate of where the image should go. For a Nodal-Ninja, the Roll is always -90, and the Pitch can be read off the upper-most rotation knob for a

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-24 Thread paul womack
Erik Krause wrote: Am 22.06.2010 15:31, schrieb Markkk: From my [foreign language] understanding, the word optimise denotes further refinement. An act of improving an otherwise complete result. A step that could even be left out for a crude first look (which obviously is not the case here).

[hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-24 Thread Erik Krause
Am 24.06.2010 10:00, schrieb paul womack: Optimization in this context describes the iterative process of altering the parameters such that the control point distance finds an optimal minimum. (cough)*local* minimum(/cough) Gesundheit! Sorry, you are absolutely right. However, isn't

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-23 Thread Emad ud din Butt
Hugin is on top of all softwares when it comes to PICTURE QUALITY. nobody matches its final picture output. But its slow and sometimes confused into making first proper layout. I am referring to my 150 (5 rows) picture panoramas. So I have to load it first in Autopano pro trial. It give me my

[hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-22 Thread Aron H
I definitely agree here. The Gigapan robot and it's Stitcher software show how easy it can be to get that initial layout with constraints - it always takes pictures on a grid, so you just have to specify how many rows there are, and suddenly you can preview the shape and content of your panorama

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-22 Thread Dale Beams
type in the orientation position? how? i'm interested. Dale On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 08:54 -0700, Aron H wrote: I definitely agree here. The Gigapan robot and it's Stitcher software show how easy it can be to get that initial layout with constraints - it always takes pictures on a grid, so

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Why is it called Optimiser and not Alignment?

2010-06-22 Thread Bruno Postle
On Tue 22-Jun-2010 at 08:54 -0700, Aron H wrote: I realize this is too constrained for many applications, but if you are taking pictures on a Nodal Ninja or other panorama head, the user could specify rows/columns and spacing fairly easily, to get started. Next, we might add the ability to have