[hugin-ptx] Re: 2011.2.0 released

2011-10-06 Thread JohnPW
@Harry, Sent a screengrab to your gmail account. John On Oct 5, 7:05 am, Harry van der Wolf hvdw...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/4 JPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com Darktable looks cool. Unfortunately the precompiled version doesn't include some prerequisite libraries though. Sadly, I don't think

[hugin-ptx] So ow that I've used Hugin to make my panorama . . .

2011-11-01 Thread JohnPW
What do I use to view/display/convert my images etc.? I imagine this is pretty basic. Perhaps I don't know the proper term for what I need? As a Mac user, I'm interested in HTML/CSS/java, QTVR, or the like. Not really interested in Flash. I mostly do partial cylindrical panoramas so I'm usually

[hugin-ptx] Re: So ow that I've used Hugin to make my panorama . . .

2011-11-02 Thread JohnPW
Thanks everyone for the responses. Further thoughts and informations will also be appreciated. :-) On Nov 2, 1:48 am, Thomas Pryds tho...@pryds.eu wrote: I'm not a Mac user, but I find that the website atwww.360cities.netdoes a good job in letting you view your panorama properly. Just upload

[hugin-ptx] Re: So ow that I've used Hugin to make my panorama . . .

2011-11-02 Thread JohnPW
Thanks for the links. I'll check them out. As I can't even claim myself capable of compiling source files on my own, I doubt I can use any but either the most simple, or the the most mature and user friendly (like Hugin) OSS solutions. On Nov 2, 5:11 pm, Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)

[hugin-ptx] Re: Vertical line detector

2011-11-02 Thread JohnPW
If I don't misunderstand your post . . . Yes, one wants a level horizon, but the horizon is an imaginary line and is only evident in certain perfect situations without obstructions (flat desert, seascape, etc.) In most natural situations like landscapes, the viewer's senses are not greatly

[hugin-ptx] Re: Vertical line detector

2011-11-03 Thread JohnPW
Well that's one of those easy situations. When you can see the horizon clearly like that, horizontal CPs distributed about the pano on the horizon should give you great results. Contrary to how one might casually think, placing them far apart (with very wide angle images) produces diminishing

[hugin-ptx] Re: Vertical line detector

2011-11-03 Thread JohnPW
BTW my sig would have to be more like Unix doesn't dictate how I work, it dictates how I don't work (but only when I consciously try to use it.) ;-) I love that it's there, but I like having that Aqua interface softening the ride! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[hugin-ptx] Re: So ow that I've used Hugin to make my panorama . . .

2011-11-03 Thread JohnPW
Thanks for the info Harry. BTW, As I read these forums I've intensified my desire to be fair, honest, appreciative and not overly casual when speaking about panorama software. I've come to notice that most of the the people around here have had some hand in making it! Thanks to Thomas for his

[hugin-ptx] Re: Vertical line detector

2011-11-03 Thread JohnPW
, 3 Nov 2011 07:06:01 -0700 (PDT), JohnPW wrote: Well that's one of those easy situations. When you can see the horizon clearly like that, horizontal CPs distributed about the pano on the horizon should give you great results. Contrary to how one might casually think, placing them far

[hugin-ptx] Re: Vertical line detector

2011-11-03 Thread JohnPW
So how do folks do their hand adjustments? . . . [I guess I should start a new topic for this.] On Nov 3, 12:47 pm, Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I had the same problem on the Pilgrim monument.  There are only four spots, at the center of each side, where there's a clear view without

[hugin-ptx] how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-03 Thread JohnPW
In an earlier post Robert Krawitz was sharing some nice panoramas he did: http://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://rlk.smugmug.com/Other/Landscapes/4851912_XB4SmT/1488875261_xzmusg=AFQjCNEGlfZgOM7TUL0A2Cykj4HW1NPBnw and

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnPW
.) Are alpha channels the way to go making the blends and masks? Is there some other better way? tricks tips etc. Thanks --John On Nov 4, 3:40 am, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 4 Nov., 06:07, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: I have some images I recently took handheld on a small yacht

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnPW
, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: I have some images I recently took handheld on a small yacht sailing in San Francisco Bay. I had to put all the control points on stationary parts of the boat since anything else was in constant motion. It has made me want to do more hand blending

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnPW
I suppose the first thing I should do is get a pano head so I have less work to do in the first place. But I tend to mostly do handheld. Because most of my images have been only partial panoramas in the past, this wasn't such a concern for me until recently. Anyway, as I was saying, I'm most

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnPW
I do need to try it. I only just relaized I could set the cropping in Hugin far beyond the image edges, even to 180x360, which is probably why I might sound pretty ignorant about this. :-) On Nov 4, 10:59 am, Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola) cartol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, in fact I

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnPW
On Nov 4, 5:11 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: The primary tool is the Mask tab in Hugin.  You can render layers and try and blend them in an image editor but this is painful. Although I was super excited when a Masking feature was added to Hugin, I felt the interface was somewhat

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-05 Thread JohnPW
4, 5:42 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 4, 5:11 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: The primary tool is the Mask tab in Hugin.  You can render layers and try and blend them in an image editor but this is painful. Although I was super excited when a Masking feature

[hugin-ptx] Re: keep one image above others?

2011-11-06 Thread JohnPW
They work for me too. The mask interface is very well thought out int terms of indicating how it effects overlapping areas in the other layers. My only gripe is that i wish the mask drawing tool were more usable. The cursor and outline seem overly large for the task, you cant zoom while drawing

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-06 Thread JohnPW
Carvalho (Cartola)http://cartola.org/360 2011/11/5 JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com I should probably clarify this as now I look at it, it doesn't convey what I really wanted it too. First, the masking feature is great and I was quite happy to see it added. It works very well and I

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-07 Thread JohnPW
for the zooming feature (which is an element to control how the image is  displayed) would be directly below or on top of the image. See attached suggestion. BTW the panorama shown in the screenshot is on 360cities: http://360cities.net/image/autumn-colors-at-grosser-ahornboden JohnPW schrieb

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-07 Thread JohnPW
Well I have gone back and tried it and looked over the documentation pretty carefully. Indeed these features do not work on the Mac version (as far as I can tell.) Originally, if I remember correctly, Apple developed the command/ Apple key only for GUI related functions, preserving the meaning of

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-07 Thread JohnPW
Interesting idea, karmadillo. On Nov 7, 5:32 pm, Karmadillo directrix.digi...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 4, 3:07 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: In an earlier post Robert Krawitz was sharing some nice panoramas he did:http://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://rlk.smugmug.com/Other/Landsca

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-07 Thread JohnPW
of the left and giving them some spacial or hierarchical separation would be a good solution for all. It's the perennial issue of balance—the natural human desire for, and love of consistency against the truth that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. :-) On Nov 7, 4:42 pm, JohnPW

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-07 Thread JohnPW
Thanks Bruno, Knowing about the ability to zoom in the mask tab makes many things better (I hope the mask editing features can be worked out for the Mac version soon.) In light of people's suggestions I have done some reading of the documentation and experimentation. But I think I'm missing some

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-07 Thread JohnPW
I suppose the hard part is discerning foolish consistency from desirable consistency. :-) On Nov 7, 6:59 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: It's the perennial issue of balance—the natural human desire for, and love of consistency against the truth that a foolish consistency

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-08 Thread JohnPW
On Nov 8, 3:25 am, Gnome Nomad gnomeno...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, the Control, Alt and Option keys were all grafted on top of the Apple key - the Apple key was The Apple Way. Having more than one modifier key was considered too confusing for Apple's idea of a user. I don't think so. But

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-08 Thread JohnPW
On Nov 8, 3:31 am, Gnome Nomad gnomeno...@gmail.com wrote: I do wish there were stronger tools for manipulating masks: rotate, flip, scale up/down, split, combine, snap points of one mask to points of another mask. This is one I've thought would be particularly handy. -- You received this

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-08 Thread JohnPW
On Nov 8, 3:41 am, Gnome Nomad gnomeno...@gmail.com wrote: In that sense, I don't think the present Hugin UI is either foolish or rabid. ;-) Definitely not. This is not a big deal, just a tweak. Some odd critters end up in every project to some extent so all projects benefit from the occasional

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-08 Thread JohnPW
OK. That looks so much better than I would have guessed (and is an easier technique than I was imagining.) On Nov 8, 3:46 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: On Mon 07-Nov-2011 at 17:31 -0800, JohnPW wrote:  . . . I prefer to use a photo multiple times in a Hugin project

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-08 Thread JohnPW
Carl, I guess when I try to repair trouble I made in one post I just create more ;-) --John computer user since 1973 satisfied Apple user since 1978 satisfied Mac user since 1984 On Nov 8, 12:50 pm, Carl von Einem c...@einem.net wrote: JohnPW schrieb am 08.11.11 18:07: On Nov 8, 3:25 am

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-08 Thread JohnPW
Exactly my thought Frederic. Thanks Bruno. On Nov 8, 4:00 pm, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/8 Bruno Postle br...@postle.net Don't complain about the lack of tutorial, you just made one :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et

[hugin-ptx] Re: Palmela 2011 Videos now available

2011-11-09 Thread JohnPW
Cool. Thanks Carlos. I enjoyed the panoramas but had some difficulty with the videos (I have a crappy bandwidth.) Is the 2012 conference locations selected yet? Just curious. --John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Hugin and other free panoramic

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-09 Thread JohnPW
This [erect2cubic] looks like something I was seeking in this post: So [n]ow that I've used Hugin to make my panorama . . . http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/60765f882c51ce5a How would you suggest one get started with learning to use scripts? It seems like quite a

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-09 Thread JohnPW
Well, I suppose it occurs to me because I'm not familiar with exactly how enblend goes about it's work. In the absence of confirmed knowledge, humans tend to create mental models of how things work. :-) On Nov 9, 12:07 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: On Tue 08-Nov-2011 at 20:03 -1000,

[hugin-ptx] Re: keep one image above others?

2011-11-10 Thread JohnPW
the zoom menu). I have no problems with the size of the cursor or mask. Try ctrl left and right mouse clicking to add and remove points to a mask. The Help has a more comprehensive desription. Cheers, Daniel. On Nov 5, 7:41 am, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: They work for me

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-15 Thread JohnPW
At the risk of sounding like a moron (as I usually do) I'll respond. I've only recently experimented with this myself. But my initial thought is, Do you want a mosaic or a pano? Actually, it really sounds like you might want a linear pano rather than a mosaic. Or possibly a series of partial panos

[hugin-ptx] Re: HDR with focus bracketing - Which workflow

2011-11-15 Thread JohnPW
I would tend to think focus bracketing should be done first (but I offer this from theory and gut instinct rather than actual experience :-) ! ) On the other hand, since the focus bracketing is only in two (presumably smaller) areas maybe my gut doesn't think it's as theoretically urgent to do the

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-16 Thread JohnPW
, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: At the risk of sounding like a moron (as I usually do) I'll respond. No you are not. I've only recently experimented with this myself. But my initial thought is, Do you want a mosaic or a pano? Actually, it really sounds like you might want a linear

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-16 Thread JohnPW
Syv, I emailed you a pdf example (not sure how to attach files in the list, although I have seen that others have done it.) I don't know how helpful it is, but perhaps it will give you an idea of what to expect with even very casual hand held shots. -- You received this message because you are

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-16 Thread JohnPW
Nice! I knew it was possible. Good point on the manual editing of control points. I meant to mention that too. It looks like on a slant one might want some downward shots at the high end and some upward shots at the low end (if one is seeking to make a conventional crop.) Obviously this has it's

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hey Hugin Mac user.

2011-11-17 Thread JohnPW
17, 10:10 am, Harry van der Wolf hvdw...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/17 JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com It's not a real big deal, but could one of you Hugin Mac users out there confirm this bug so I don't have to keep thinking I'm crazy?  :-)   As I said it's not a horrible bug

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-17 Thread JohnPW
? It seems very possible to me. --John On Nov 17, 1:00 pm, Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:29:23 -0800 (PST), kfj wrote: On 16 Nov., 09:25, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: Ha! Just as I expected someone with a good knowledge of the subject has responded as I

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-17 Thread JohnPW
On Nov 17, 4:13 pm, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 17 Nov., 21:14, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: What is needed is probably more like a photo finish camera:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_finish Which looks to be very similar tho the line camera Kay has described (pretty

[hugin-ptx] Re: Planer form to curved form software.

2011-11-18 Thread JohnPW
Not sure what you are asking but if I understand what you're thinking, this may help: http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/39e8e289427f9415/b2f8f459e9c0f808?lnk=gstq=gores# On Nov 18, 1:52 pm, Dale Beams drbe...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm looking for planer to curved from

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-20 Thread JohnPW
a quickie test to see if the technique could be applied to shooting panomurals (as I’ve termed them). On 18 November 2011 06:34, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 18 Nov., 00:13, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 17, 4:13 pm, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: This is why we now try

[hugin-ptx] Re: FORK HUGIN

2011-11-21 Thread JohnPW
I'm thinking this might be a problem of use/understanding/interface metaphone. Hugin harnesses some very powerful and complex tools and leaves a lot of room for user choices and modification so as to be most flexible for any need. Because of this it can be rather hard to learn to use (it gives you

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-21 Thread JohnPW
2011 07:28, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: That's pretty fun. Notice how it tried to resolve the parallax problems. It locked onto the front surface of the the building pretty well, but had a hard time with distant objects enclosed by the building. The objects seen through the open

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Experience

2011-11-21 Thread JohnPW
this is interesting. It's also helpful to mess around with the target image and see how the various perspectives and features work. I made a target image as you described. I'm not too familiar with GIMP but It seemed to work out nicely. If anyone can tell me how to post an image on here, I'd be

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Experience

2011-11-21 Thread JohnPW
Please clarify this for me as I want to make sure I understand (and it may be helpful to other newer Panorama makers like myself.) These are my assumptions: 1.) Only the actual horizon should be assigned as a horizontal line (unless you just want some line, or the average of some lines, to be

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Experience

2011-11-21 Thread JohnPW
The Apple UFO Campus Building exception. ;-) On Nov 21, 5:43 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: . . . What about equirectangular or cylindrical (or Mercator)? In these projections the only features in the scene that will be horizontal in the output image are: the horizon at sea, or

[hugin-ptx] Re: Errors in preview window

2011-11-22 Thread JohnPW
Jan said it short and sweet! Think of the GL preview as a rough but fast preview with lots of features, and the regular preview as a slower more accurate preview. In the GL preview you can drag images around, crop the pano, visually see any out of whack control points, check the coverage on the

[hugin-ptx] Re: how do you do your hand adjustments of your panos?

2011-11-22 Thread JohnPW
Actually There are cases where it is a goal to make the blending seam pass through a particular area. In my case the it's where the passengess on the boat are gripping the rails (or the mast stay.) It's the only place that is fairly static. But I have found your cropping advice very helpful. The

[hugin-ptx] Re: 20111122 New Hugin bundle 2011.5.0.5677_389d0ad73d00 incl. mask fix

2011-11-23 Thread JohnPW
Cool! I look forward to using it. Thanks, all. --John On Nov 22, 12:03 pm, Harry van der Wolf hvdw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi mac users, Another new bundle This bundle fixes the mask error as described inhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bug/887406 Thanks to Thomas Modes (once again). To

[hugin-ptx] Re: 20111122 New Hugin bundle 2011.5.0.5677_389d0ad73d00 incl. mask fix

2011-11-24 Thread JohnPW
Hi Harry, This is an improvement. Still having some intermittent problems though with wandering masks and adding/deleting mask points. I also think (once the mask and point editing problems get completely ferreted out) that it would be helpful it Hugin would remember the mask window states

[hugin-ptx] Re: Mosaic

2011-11-28 Thread JohnPW
in the direction of right to left, with the camera held portrait. On 21 November 2011 21:16, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting. It looks like it uses the camera's orientations sensor to select the angle of the strip of image it captures. As you turn the camera the strips

[hugin-ptx] Re: getting hsi to work with numpy

2011-11-28 Thread JohnPW
This sounds interesting. Am I correct in thinking that HSI is not functional on the Mac platform? --John On Nov 26, 10:52 am, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 26 Nov., 16:28, Tom Sharpless tksharpl...@gmail.com wrote: Given that Hugin now does Python, it is natural to extend some of the core

[hugin-ptx] Re: Adding photos from Aperture via the Media Browser

2011-11-28 Thread JohnPW
I have to admit I've never tried that myself. I always export a version or master to a folder labeled 8bit. Then I repeat the same export to a folder named 16bit. Then I create a Hugin.pto and all are in a folder named after the pano. This way the whole project is self contained and portable. It

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Experience

2011-12-01 Thread JohnPW
://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpwatkins/sets/72157628238521079/ On Nov 21, 3:22 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: this is interesting. It's also helpful to mess around with the target image and see how the various perspectives and features work. I made a target image as you described. I'm not too

[hugin-ptx] Re: Cuboid Projection

2011-12-01 Thread JohnPW
You will find this tread useful. http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/39e8e289427f9415/b2f8f459e9c0f808?lnk=gstq=gores#b2f8f459e9c0f808 It got me exited about using templates and now I use them all the time for 16bit images and a number of other things. The last post by

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Experience

2011-12-01 Thread JohnPW
Thanks. As I've said before, I'm better with pictures than text! ;-) On Dec 1, 4:34 pm, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 1 Dez., 22:54, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: Even though nobody asked :-)   I'm posting a link to the target I made following Kay's description. It probably isn't

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Experience

2011-12-01 Thread JohnPW
On Dec 1, 4:34 pm, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: It's fun mixing in artificial images! Kay That's an interesting idea. One could turn a painting or an artificial landscape (CAD drawing, child's drawing, etc.) into an interactive panorama. What have you tried? -- You received this message because

[hugin-ptx] Re: using artificial imagery for augmented panoramas

2011-12-02 Thread JohnPW
Interesting idea. I made a panorama from the Mt Baldy Colorado images. Unfortunately he hasn't made one for Mt. Evans CO, which is probably one of the the most visited high peaks in the US (and one which I made a panorama from.) On Dec 2, 11:30 am, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 2 Dez., 16:27, kfj

[hugin-ptx] Re: using artificial imagery for augmented panoramas

2011-12-03 Thread JohnPW
Reading the reviews, it looks like it may not work very well. On Dec 3, 5:26 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: In looking for a similar website that covers north America, I came across this:http://panoramascope.com/index.html Looked pretty interesting to me. Has anyone been able

[hugin-ptx] Re: Attitude in EXIF?

2011-12-06 Thread JohnPW
Yup. Calibration makes up for any *stationary* interfering objects which is why you can have a very accurate fixed compass on a ship or vehicle. So the limitation Geoff points out is mostly a result of the sensor. However, all the tripod and parts of the head are not stationary relative to the

[hugin-ptx] Re: Introducing Pannellum - an HTML5 Panorama Viewer

2012-06-02 Thread JohnPW
Nice Job, Matthew. And thanks. It seems to work fine on my Intel C2D MacBook Pro running Safari on 10.7.4. No go on my iPod touch though as (surprising to me) Safari on iOS does not support WebGL (I guess it's still fairly beta on Safari though.) It would be nice to be able to use the cursor

[hugin-ptx] GUI Redesign Questions

2012-06-04 Thread JohnPW
Is this the best place to go to get up to speed on the current GUI Redesign: ? https://blueprints.launchpad.net/hugin/+spec/ui-overhaul Is there a user case, development plan, or other kinds of documents I can review to understand the goals, intentions, and planning of this redesign? I'm asking

[hugin-ptx] Re: GUI Redesign Questions

2012-06-12 Thread JohnPW
Judging from the resounding silence, I'm guessing my post must be seen as somewhat offensive, ignorant, presumptuous, or the like (or possibly the ones who can answer are to tired to respond.) Sorry if any or all of those are true. I really appreciate the work that has been done on Hugin and know

[hugin-ptx] Re: [OSX] Hugin bundle 2011.5.0.5783:78df15316108: Gui overhaul 2, wxwidgets 2.9.3, 64bit GUIs

2012-06-12 Thread JohnPW
Seems to be a problem with the show extent of active masks and crop area option in the mask(/crop) tab. When the option is checked some of the screens are fully dimmed (as if the whole image has been masked out or cropped.) (I have screen shots, but see no way to attach them on this web site.) --

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin bundle 2011.5.0.5783:78df15316108: Gui overhaul 2, wxwidgets 2.9.3, 64bit GUIs

2012-06-12 Thread JohnPW
PS: I'm using 2011.5.0.5833:db2f378e1c08 built by Harry van der Wolf On Jun 12, 1:33 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to be a problem with the show extent of active masks and crop area option in the mask(/crop) tab. When the option is checked some of the screens are fully dimmed

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin bundle 2011.5.0.5783:78df15316108: Gui overhaul 2, wxwidgets 2.9.3, 64bit GUIs

2012-06-12 Thread JohnPW
And how does one close the Overview window in the Fast preview window? (I like the feature, but don't know how to close it.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Hugin and other free panoramic software group. A list of frequently asked questions is

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin bundle 2011.5.0.5783:78df15316108: Gui overhaul 2, wxwidgets 2.9.3, 64bit GUIs

2012-06-12 Thread JohnPW
To reattach the overview window after unpinning it, drag the overview window bar to any edge (the cursor on the edge, not the window itself) and hold for a second. To dismiss the window altogether, view-overview (as when opening it.) On Jun 12, 1:56 pm, JohnPW johnpwatk...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: GUI Redesign Questions

2012-06-12 Thread JohnPW
Thanks Harry and Bruno, I'm glad I didn't cause offense (and don't worry, I took no offense at the initial silence.) I appreciate your explanations and will continue to provide what feedback I can. I'll also go back and make sure I've read all that I can on this and not missed any past

Re: [hugin-ptx] cannot align an image

2012-07-01 Thread JohnPW
I couldn't follow what Jose was really trying to do (or why! People find so many uses for Hugin.) But I did understand one image was a screenshot and therefore undistorted (as Jose alluded to) and therefor just set ypr at 0,0,0. I added a few more control points and then optimized. It looks

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lensfun 0.2.6 released

2012-07-02 Thread JohnPW
The GUI overhaul is interesting, but the binaries I've used on the Mac are definitely not ready for prime time. Only the 5.0.5723 version (compiled by Harry, as I have had no luck compiling on my own) has even worked for me. Later versions don't even save control points, image position

[hugin-ptx] Re: Cpfind should accept filenames and wildcards

2012-07-02 Thread JohnPW
Wow. Quite a big project. And very nice images. Nice work. John Thanks! It's a labor of love but sometimes overwhelming (world record?) I've been documenting an old power station that 's subject of an ongoing industrial preservation effort combined with a leisure / entertainment facility

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin - Microscope images showing strong parallax when stitched

2012-07-24 Thread JohnPW
I think you will want to use a rectilinear projection. You are making a linear panorama which is really more like a scan than a mosaic. This tutorial may be helpful as it is most like what you are trying to do and it extends on the scanned images tutorial Carlos suggested:

[hugin-ptx] Hugin Likes to do everything twice.

2012-07-31 Thread JohnPW
Good to see the new Hugin 2012 Beta. Thanks, Harry. I have had a problem with the last several Beta versions (binaries) and thought it was just a Beta thing. Perhaps something is amiss with my installation? Soemthing with the batcher? Some preference somewhere? I don't know. Anyway, whenever

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Likes to do everything twice.

2012-08-03 Thread JohnPW
Thanks for the response Harry. On Friday, August 3, 2012 2:56:12 AM UTC-5, Harry van der Wolf wrote: 2012/8/2 JohnPW Could the fact that I have more than one version of Hugin installed be the cause of this problem? I don't think this is a probable cause but you never know. I have

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Likes to do everything twice.

2012-08-06 Thread JohnPW
not have the parallel jobs option checked. So now things are running smoothly. Thanks again, John On Saturday, August 4, 2012 5:38:06 AM UTC-5, Harry van der Wolf wrote: On Friday, August 3, 2012 2:56:12 AM UTC-5, Harry van der Wolf wrote: 2012/8/2 JohnPW Could the fact that I have more

Re: [hugin-ptx] orienting a panorama by the sun

2012-08-07 Thread JohnPW
That's pretty cool. Thanks. On Friday, August 3, 2012 5:01:46 AM UTC-5, kfj wrote: Deuschle's site is indeed excellent, and I've been using it for my 'canonical' panoramas from mountaintops, where I set something like a dozen CPs between real images and the artificial panorama (which I

[hugin-ptx] Curiosity''s panoramic images

2012-08-13 Thread JohnPW
I'm curious. Does anyone know what PanoTools-like software NASA uses to process the image data they get back from the Mars rover? Any PanoTools/Hugin connections? [Link to JPL NASA page] http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16051 -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[hugin-ptx] Re: Curiosity''s panoramic images

2012-08-13 Thread JohnPW
It looks like they have minimal overlap (and little or no blending.) I suppose their mast camera is quite stable and well calibrated and understood, so they can take mosaic images with minimal overlap, which would save on bandwidth (I assume that's a factor.) I believe I read that Mars is

[hugin-ptx] Re: Curiosity''s panoramic images

2012-08-13 Thread JohnPW
Alex, Nice. According to the DPReview link that IKT posted the camera is 34mm (115 equivalent) which should allow you to get the FOV and the crop factor if you want. Thanks IKT On Monday, August 13, 2012 2:22:19 PM UTC-5, Alex Romosan wrote: i don't speak for nasa or jpl, but i grabbed their

Re: [hugin-ptx] Curiosity''s panoramic images

2012-08-13 Thread JohnPW
Thanks for that link. I figured they may well have been pioneers in this area, since they tend to have lots of valuable visual data, lots of time to plan and process, lots of technical expertise, lots of money to throw at the problem, and have probably been working on it for 50 or 60 years. On

Re: [hugin-ptx] Curiosity's panoramic images

2012-08-16 Thread JohnPW
So no intelligent life then? Bummer. ;-) - NM is a nice place. On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:48:04 PM UTC-5, Chris Dennis wrote: On 14/08/12 19:44, Thomas Pryds wrote: On the same topic, see http://360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2 Ha! Capricorn One was

[hugin-ptx] Re: Curiosity''s panoramic images

2012-08-17 Thread JohnPW
OK, So like Alex I grabbed images from the JPL website and put them into Hugin (my first really large pano — Now I see where some of the techniques I've read about come into play. Anywy I got this strange banding along the tile edges—almost like the vignetting was not removed (except its worse

[hugin-ptx] Horizontal Banding Problem

2012-08-18 Thread JohnPW
I imagine this is nothing new to most of you but for a person who had never seen it before, It was baffling for a while. So I'm posting this because it took me a while to figure it out, I didn't see anything referring to this in the Hugin forums, manual or website, and it might be nice for

[hugin-ptx] Re: Horizontal Banding Problem

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
So was my post super obvious for people? At all interesting or helpful to anyone? Just curious. This is the sort of basic thing I'd like to see addressed a bit in the manuals or on the Wiki. Perhaps it already is. I'm always amazed when I discover new resources I hadn't noticed before, buried

[hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
I've been messing around with tying to use some of the HuginTools on my Mac. does anyone know of a link to information on doing this? I have seen this: http://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_scripting_in_a_nutshell and it is interesting. But I need some more basic information. (Like the basics on

[hugin-ptx] Re: New wiki page on badge merge and align handheld images

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
Nice Erik. Thanks. I like very explicit tutorials on doing specific things. Many of the resources assume more basic knowledge than I possess (details about Hugin, PanoTools, or even just OS or command line details) making them very intriguing, but not necessarily easy to use. Thanks, John On

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
Hi Harry, Thanks for the response. (It's partially your move away from OS X that has stimulated me to learn more about this stuff. I figure that in the future, among other things, I might actually have to compile my own Hugin Mac binaries!) When you say, So if you want to use tca_correct for

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:28:14 PM UTC-5, Harry van der Wolf wrote: The binaries in the HuginTools folder are actually symlinks to the binaries inside the Hugin.app. I assume this refers to the files in the Hugin app package? (a symlink is akin to an alias pointing to the binary

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
OK, I think I figured it out. I hope I haven't broken anything. I changed this: [There was a bunch of very similar stuff above this . . . ] ## # Your previous /Users/jpwmacbookpro/.profile file was backed up as /Users/jpwmacbookpro/.profile.macports-saved_2012-08-12_at_18:57:16 ## # MacPorts

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Horizontal Banding Problem

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
to row. And this is before I cropped out the top two rows of black pixels. How much better did it get when you cropped out the black pixels? Jim On 2012-08-22 3:43 PM, JohnPW wrote: So was my post super obvious for people? At all interesting or helpful to anyone? Just curious

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Horizontal Banding Problem

2012-08-22 Thread JohnPW
Ah. This one was still too big and got down sampled by Google. It looks like it's about about 1/4 original resolution now. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:23:38 PM UTC-5, JohnPW wrote: It turned out pretty nice, although it is huge. here's a detail: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-23 Thread JohnPW
Thanks, That's helpful and good to know. On Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:23:42 PM UTC-5, Harry van der Wolf wrote: Hi, Yes, that's correct. It could be slightly simpler but macports quite forcefully adds it's path before the rest. That's not a problem at all, just a remark (every mac with

[hugin-ptx] Re: 'motion stitch' question

2012-08-23 Thread JohnPW
I'm ignorant of scripting, but it seems to me that only certain parts of this project can be easily automated. I suggest for a shot like this (never tried one, but I have thought about it a good bit :-) ) that you take initial shots that cover the area of the action completely. These can then

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-24 Thread JohnPW
, 2012 4:15:08 PM UTC-5, Bruno Postle wrote: On Thu 23-Aug-2012 at 13:44 -0700, JohnPW wrote: So I am curious. You said you don't do command line stuff with Hugin anymore and I wondered if you would expand on that. Is it not worthwhile? Ultimately, Hugin is a pointy-clicky visual way

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-24 Thread JohnPW
Thanks Harry. On Friday, August 24, 2012 11:53:14 AM UTC-5, Harry van der Wolf wrote: 2012/8/23 JohnPW johnpw...@gmail.com javascript: So I am curious. You said you don't do command line stuff with Hugin anymore and I wondered if you would expand on that. Is it not worthwhile? Do you

Re: [hugin-ptx] I need help using command line tools on the Mac (or do I?)

2012-08-25 Thread JohnPW
run it's course, these are the numbers I got: degrees of veiew = 14.82454 focal length = 34.76441 crop factor = 3.3823 b = -0.00323 John On Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:26:43 AM UTC-5, Thomas Pryds wrote: 2012/8/25 JohnPW johnpw...@gmail.com javascript

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