[hugin-ptx] Re: The math is perfect ...

2020-10-05 Thread Torsten Bronger
by the Abrimaal is the difficulty to set control points if the GUI is bright and the image is dark.] @Abrimaal: Can Hugin’s GUI style be influenced by your operating system’s settings? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotool

[hugin-ptx] Re: incomplete lens correction model - it bites

2018-07-25 Thread Torsten Bronger
n the Lensfun lens database that a and c are strongly damped. b (the only odd coefficient) mostly has the biggest absolute value. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because

[hugin-ptx] Re: incomplete lens correction model - it bites

2018-07-24 Thread Torsten Bronger
d vignetting in the lens, the reasoning > should work. How does the vignetting affect distortion? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

[hugin-ptx] Re: incomplete lens correction model - it bites

2018-07-24 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Gunter Königsmann writes: > Would that help with cellphone lenses that tend to have a > different scale in the top left corner than in the lower right > one? No. It is all about centrosymmetric aberrations here. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequen

[hugin-ptx] Re: incomplete lens correction model - it bites

2018-07-23 Thread Torsten Bronger
once patched the Pano library to use the exponents 3, 5, and 7 for a, b, c. It did not help for the (albeit single) pano that I used for testing. This is not a proof, it was only discouragement for me to follow this path further. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked q

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lens correction with Hugin

2018-05-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
ines? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe fro

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lens correction with Hugin

2018-05-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
estion is whether your coefficients lead to a good-looking correction. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lens correction with Hugin

2018-05-08 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Torsten Bronger writes: > [...] > > To switch off the lines, see <https://www.screencast.com/t/HSWzBkoPB>. Sorry, http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.ptx/35067 is the correct link. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questio

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lens correction with Hugin

2018-05-08 Thread Torsten Bronger
image on both sides as seen here - > https://www.screencast.com/t/RVRV1srhI2 To switch off the lines, see <https://www.screencast.com/t/HSWzBkoPB>. And, "horiz. Line" in this screenshot indicates that you are doing something wrong. It must be a "new line" instead (like &q

[hugin-ptx] Re: Printed image for stitch calibration

2016-12-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
Thus, I don't think you get more accuracy than with far away structures, or with a least-parallax adapter. Moreover, you should know the stars quite well, otherwise, it is a tedious search. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger -- A list of frequently asked questions is available

[hugin-ptx] Re: Distortion parameters "a, b, c" to "k_1, k_2, p_1, p_2[, k_3[, k_4, k_5, k_6]]" (OpenCV)

2016-07-01 Thread Torsten Bronger
have scaling as one degree of freedom. This way, one coefficient (no matter which!) can be set to an arbitrary non-zero value. The conversion is not easy, though. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de -- A list of frequently asked questions

[hugin-ptx] Re: Distortion parameters "a, b, c" to "k_1, k_2, p_1, p_2[, k_3[, k_4, k_5, k_6]]" (OpenCV)

2016-07-01 Thread Torsten Bronger
gin for calibration, take the different coordinate system into account (i.e. scaling factor to the power of 3), and take d!=1 into account by dividing the resulting k1 by (1-b)^3. (Beware that I haven't checked the calculation, and one can easily make mistakes in these things.) Tschö, Torsten. -- Tor

[hugin-ptx] Re: Change distortion formula

2015-12-25 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Bruno Postle writes: > On Mon 07-Dec-2015 at 11:14 +0100, Torsten Bronger wrote: >> >> I would like to model distortion with an alternative formula. >> Hugin's formula is described on >> <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/Lens_correction_mode

[hugin-ptx] Change distortion formula

2015-12-07 Thread Torsten Bronger
I need to change that. Can anybody help me with that? Thank you! Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscrib

[hugin-ptx] Re: fun with lensfun

2015-02-20 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! T. Modes writes: Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2015 21:18:10 UTC+1 schrieb Torsten Bronger: The lensfun library has a stable and well-documented API. If we make changes, we follow the established procedures of obsolescence. And even that has not been necessary so far. LOL, from

[hugin-ptx] Re: fun with lensfun

2015-02-20 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! T. Modes writes: Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2015 18:03:37 UTC+1 schrieb Torsten Bronger: ... which was initiated after your removal of Lensfun from Hugin. So, the only issue you present is one you was not even affected by. *You* marked the fov api as deprecated on 13.04.2014

[hugin-ptx] Re: fun with lensfun

2015-02-19 Thread Torsten Bronger
target. So, for the sake of fairness to a fellow open source project, please do not post such discrediting and vague statements without evidence. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lens database

2014-08-28 Thread Torsten Bronger
-- they are a by-product of the first good pano that you do anyway. And then, you store them for later use. Besides, there are typically only few lenses and few focal lengths that you use for panos. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de

[hugin-ptx] Re: Lens database

2014-08-26 Thread Torsten Bronger
and can say that even for high-quality lenses, there is significant series deviation. Panorama stitching needs *much* more accuracy than single-image correction. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin is purely and simply unusable for panorama stiching

2014-05-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
belief that they weren't looking for help at all. They were just trolling. Maybe. But the rest of the thread contained so much well-disposed and constructive critisism that this doesn't matter anymore. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to switch off lines in control point editor

2014-05-08 Thread Torsten Bronger
settings dialog is not crowded, so maybe there's room for another checkbox ... ;-) Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- A list of frequently asked questions is available

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to switch of lines in crontrol point editor

2014-05-07 Thread Torsten Bronger
, the problem is that if you mark an edge in the image with control points, you quickly don't see the edge anymore because it is buried under these lines. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to switch of lines in crontrol point editor

2014-05-06 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Terry Duell writes: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:21:16 +1000, Torsten Bronger bron...@physik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Recent versions of Hugin draw thin black lines between the control point and its counterpart in the control point editor. How can I switch that off? I suspect that's

[hugin-ptx] Re: More fit parameters worsen fit?

2014-05-06 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Torsten Bronger writes: Currently, I make the (for me) confusing observation that the residual errors increase if I include the FOV into the fit. Shouldn't more parameters *never* make the fit worse? I must correct this statement. The average distance between control points

Re: [hugin-ptx] How to switch of lines in crontrol point editor

2014-05-05 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Terry Duell writes: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:21:16 +1000, Torsten Bronger bron...@physik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Recent versions of Hugin draw thin black lines between the control point and its counterpart in the control point editor. How can I switch that off? I suspect that's

[hugin-ptx] More fit parameters worsen fit?

2014-05-05 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Currently, I make the (for me) confusing observation that the residual errors increase if I include the FOV into the fit. Shouldn't more parameters *never* make the fit worse? After all, Hugin could just leave the FOV as it is, and the fit quality would be preserved. Tschö,

[hugin-ptx] How to switch of lines in crontrol point editor

2014-04-28 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Recent versions of Hugin draw thin black lines between the control point and its counterpart in the control point editor. How can I switch that off? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http

[hugin-ptx] Re: Wanted: Your distortion parameters

2014-04-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
on this list this week. ;-) -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because

[hugin-ptx] Wanted: Your distortion parameters

2014-04-10 Thread Torsten Bronger
file again and re-do the optimisation with all these parameters fixed to zero. Thank you very much! Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- A list of frequently asked

[hugin-ptx] Re: Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-04-08 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Erik Krause writes: Am 03.04.2014 14:33, schrieb Torsten Bronger: AFAIKS, everything is fine. Hugin's calculations are precise. The only issue is that Hugin defines a focal length different from the one that an optics textbook would define, that's all. Optics textbook

[hugin-ptx] Re: Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-04-08 Thread Torsten Bronger
= 8.65 a = 0.02142 b = -0.0194 c = 0.02785 == real focal length = 8.39 I think this supports my view that Hugin's focal length, multiplied by (1-a-b-c), results in the real one. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de

[hugin-ptx] Re: Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-04-08 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Erik Krause writes: Am 08.04.2014 20:32, schrieb Torsten Bronger: I think this supports my view that Hugin's focal length, multiplied by (1-a-b-c), results in the real one. Why do you want to know the focal length that precise? In the Lensfun project, we need the exact focal

[hugin-ptx] Re: Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-04-03 Thread Torsten Bronger
. But even this fails often enough. That said, I'm aware this all this cannot be changed anymore. So actually, I only need to know (*). Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com

[hugin-ptx] Re: Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-04-03 Thread Torsten Bronger
a focal length different from the one that an optics textbook would define, that's all. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- A list of frequently asked questions is available

[hugin-ptx] Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-03-26 Thread Torsten Bronger
anyway. I ask this because I care for the Lensfun project at the moment, and it inherits all the formulae from Hugin. With all their quirks. ;-) Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger

[hugin-ptx] Re: Focal length and FOV badly defined in Hugin?

2014-03-26 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Torsten Bronger writes: If I understand the Hugin projection model correctly, the distance of a pixel from the image centre r (in real-world coordinates), depending of the angle of the incoming light ray with respect to the optical axis, is r(alpha) = f * (a*r^3 + b*r^2 +c*r + 1

[hugin-ptx] Re: FOV and orientation

2014-03-04 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Torsten Bronger writes: Bruno Postle writes: On 3 March 2014 10:25, Torsten Bronger torsten.bron...@gmail.com wrote: How is the FOV lens parameter in Hugin defined? Always the horizontal axis, always the longer axis, always the shorter axis? Always horizontal

[hugin-ptx] FOV and orientation

2014-03-03 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! How is the FOV lens parameter in Hugin defined? Always the horizontal axis, always the longer axis, always the shorter axis? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com

[hugin-ptx] Re: FOV and orientation

2014-03-03 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Bruno Postle writes: On 3 March 2014 10:25, Torsten Bronger torsten.bron...@gmail.com wrote: How is the FOV lens parameter in Hugin defined? Always the horizontal axis, always the longer axis, always the shorter axis? Always horizontal, this is inherited from the panotools lens

[hugin-ptx] Re: FOV and orientation

2014-03-03 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Torsten Bronger writes: Hallöchen! Bruno Postle writes: On 3 March 2014 10:25, Torsten Bronger torsten.bron...@gmail.com wrote: How is the FOV lens parameter in Hugin defined? Always the horizontal axis, always the longer axis, always the shorter axis? Always horizontal

[hugin-ptx] Re: Aspect ratio and coordinate system

2013-12-05 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! T. Modes writes: Am Montag, 18. November 2013 09:22:30 UTC+1 schrieb Torsten Bronger: [...] [...] In the documentation to both function it states cite The algorithm will look for a lens with crop factor not less than of given camera, since the mathematical models of the lens

[hugin-ptx] Ordering of geometry transformation and anti-destortion

2013-11-28 Thread Torsten Bronger
. This also means that if I want to have a *perfect* stereographic picture, Hugin needs to map to rectilinear, apply a, b, c, and map back to stereographic. This would be rather wasteful. Can anybody confirm or dispute this? Thank you! Bye, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron

[hugin-ptx] Re: Aspect ratio and coordinate system

2013-11-21 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Terry Duell writes: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:22:30 +1100, Torsten Bronger torsten.bron...@gmail.com wrote: We have a problem in the LensFun project that also affects Hugin. The coordinate system used for distortion and TCA correction is poorly designed [snip] I haven't seen

[hugin-ptx] Re: How to contribute lens file to lensfun?

2013-04-26 Thread Torsten Bronger
is only visible if you are logged-in. :-( Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Hugin and other

[hugin-ptx] Re: Small errors, Projection formula and Preview

2013-04-24 Thread Torsten Bronger
be a couple of mm, especially with large overlaps, so noticable mismatches in straight lines. Maybe one could try a rectilinear lens, but I'm not willing to do that. I just live with the mismatches. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de

[hugin-ptx] Re: Small errors, Projection formula and Preview

2013-04-24 Thread Torsten Bronger
in GIMP is not ok for me :( I'm afraid I don't fully understand what you need. You can manually move single images relatively to others with the mouse or by entering values. Is this what you are looking for? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de

[hugin-ptx] Re: Small errors, Projection formula and Preview

2013-04-24 Thread Torsten Bronger
that I did not understand this paragraph in your first post. Probably somebody else can help you with this. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- -- You received this message

[hugin-ptx] Re: Small errors, Projection formula and Preview

2013-04-24 Thread Torsten Bronger
that the enblend process cannot make them invisible, I can also see in fast preview. But as I already pointed out, I would never align this way. CP are the proper way to go. Correct CPs have unbeatable accuracy. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de

[hugin-ptx] Re: Viewpoint correction (aka translation)

2013-04-21 Thread Torsten Bronger
* more accurate, the moving around works now, too. I think this is a powerful tool for the general nadir problem. Thank you! Could you provide the pto file for testing? I'll do so in a private mail as I don't have non-private pictures available right now. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger

[hugin-ptx] Viewpoint correction (aka translation)

2013-04-19 Thread Torsten Bronger
relatively to the other depending on the viewing direction of the panorama centre? Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[hugin-ptx] Re: Viewpoint correction (aka translation)

2013-04-19 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Torsten Bronger writes: For the nadir image, my plan was to move the tripod 1 metre to the side and take another picture downwards. The ground is a flat surface. In Hugin, I added control points (on the plane only) and included X, Y, and Z of this last photograph

[hugin-ptx] Re: Viewpoint correction (aka translation)

2013-04-19 Thread Torsten Bronger
://www.flickr.com/photos/36383814@N00/5830006193 I don't see any difference to my nadir method. The front of Bruno's buildings is my room floor. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger

[hugin-ptx] degrees of view always for equidistant fisheye?

2012-12-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
Why do the degrees of view in Hugin's Camera and Lens tab always refer to rectilinear or equidistant? I can choose stereographic, equisolid, orthographic ... I only see the FOV for the equidistant case. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Hugin and

[hugin-ptx] ANN: lens calibration tutorial

2012-11-03 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! At http://wilson.homeunix.com/lens_calibration_tutorial/ you find my new lens calibration tutorial. I release it together with a script program that simplifies the process heavily. Just copy the calibration shots in the proper directories and start the script. (Well, almost.) The

[hugin-ptx] Calibrating lens vignetting

2012-10-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! I fiddled around with Hugin to generate vignetting calibration information, according to http://lensfun.berlios.de/lens-calibration/lens-vignetting.html. It worked, but it was very tedious and difficult to check. Now, I know that it was inaccurate, too. I found a much better way

Re: [hugin-ptx] lensfun vignetting correction using Hugin

2012-08-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Bruno Postle writes: On Wed 15-Aug-2012 at 20:40 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: [...] I wrote a Python script that generates the makefiles and calls make for each picture triplett, and generates the XML code for lensfun in the end. This seems to work. Great, I hope you

Re: [hugin-ptx] lensfun vignetting correction using Hugin

2012-08-17 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Bruno Postle writes: On Wed 15-Aug-2012 at 20:40 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: [...] I wrote a Python script that generates the makefiles and calls make for each picture triplett, and generates the XML code for lensfun in the end. This seems to work. Great, I hope you

[hugin-ptx] lensfun vignetting correction using Hugin

2012-08-15 Thread Torsten Bronger
can help me. If it does, which value do you recommend? I didn't quite understand the manpage. Thanks in advance! Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten BrongerJabber ID: torsten.bron...@jabber.rwth-aachen.de or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com -- You received