Re: [hugin-ptx] ANN: Hugin 2010.4.0 released

2011-01-02 Thread Harry van der Wolf
Hi all, Happy new year to all. 2011/1/1 Yuval Levy > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > DOWNLOAD > > This tarball is equivalent to 4779:072e972a07ab in our Mercurial > repository, where it is also tagged 2010.4.0 > > Verify its SHA1SUM > > 47f25c0a8b97c27108e567bcd22203c87f268d07 hugin-20

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:11:24PM -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > On December 30, 2010 10:38:36 am Rogier Wolff wrote: > > I think the gui is "reasonable" in that it pops > > up the assistant and nudges the user to click "1: load images", and > > this will result in a pano a few clicks further down th

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin Timeline on Launchpad complete

2011-01-02 Thread Bart van Andel
Big thumbs up! Impressive indeed! -- Bart -- 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 available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to

[hugin-ptx] First hugin blueprint entered

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Martin
Hi all, I just entered the first blueprint for hugin into launchpad: http://bit.ly/hmxCj4 (Link obfuscated to not spoil the surprise.) What do you think? Jan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 29, 2010 01:26:21 pm kfj wrote: > On 29 Dez., 14:09, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 07:42:12AM -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > > > Still: I don't think CPs are the ultimate tool for the image > > > alignment process... > > I agree. But what else do we have? I'm asking this

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: script to scale up pto files

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 29, 2010 05:02:30 am kfj wrote: > On 28 Dez., 23:57, Bruno Postle wrote: > > >Rogier, whom I asked for his personal script in the initial post, > > >isn't sharing it and Bruno doesn't scale by arbitrary factors, which > > >is what I'd like to see. > > > > Out of interest, what advanta

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 29, 2010 04:50:17 am kfj wrote: > my contribution will only become practical > once my modifications to pano_trafo have been accepted done (yesterday). > If you look at the purpose of the script in a > different way, you can maybe appreciate it's usefulness better: it's > an insuranc

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 30, 2010 07:59:36 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > I think there are people who shoot some photos on holiday, > install Hugin when they get home, and get a reasonable stitch > without problems. we rely on a lot of luck here, and the more features we add to Hugin, the less lucky we are. > W

Re: [hugin-ptx] ANN: Hugin 2010.4.0 released

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
Hoi Harry, On January 2, 2011 03:08:51 am Harry van der Wolf wrote: > Note: Stable versions for OSX are always released via Sourceforge and > never via my website. Sorry for that. Is there any reason why the betas and release candidates were not on Sourceforge? It would be helpful, from a rel

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 31, 2010 05:05:20 am kfj wrote: > Other programs hide complexity by default and can be switched into > more advanced, or 'expert' modes, where more options become available. this is not about complexity vs. simplicity. Hugin is like an Office suite. In an office suite you have a Word

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 31, 2010 12:20:22 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > make the preview the 'main' application window and make the > everything else secondary - to the extent that only the preview is visible > during a normal workflow. > > This approach is now practical since we got background loading of photos,

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 1, 2011 06:57:46 am Bruno Postle wrote: > [Snip making the preview the default GUI] > > Any change needs to be considered as a complete user experience: > > The 123 load, align, stitch functions need to be very prominent, I'd make > them huge text and overlay them over the preview canv

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 03:58:53 am Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:11:24PM -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > > On December 30, 2010 10:38:36 am Rogier Wolff wrote: > > Disagree. That assistant tab assist is a nuisance to the power user and > > a deception to the occasional user - especially

Re: [hugin-ptx] First hugin blueprint entered

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 08:58:18 am Jan Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > I just entered the first blueprint for hugin into launchpad: > > http://bit.ly/hmxCj4 > > (Link obfuscated to not spoil the surprise.) > > What do you think? I don't want to spoil your experience, so let's say... it's a good start

Re: [hugin-ptx] First hugin blueprint entered

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Martin
Hi all, I like to invite you to work on the specs together. Jan https://blueprints.launchpad.net/hugin/+spec/speed-test-tab Hugin Speed Test tab for automatic hardware evaluation. To pick the right hardware for hugin one needs to know what performance one will get. For this we create a new "Sp

Re: [hugin-ptx] ANN: Hugin 2010.4.0 released

2011-01-02 Thread Harry van der Wolf
2011/1/2 Yuval Levy > Hoi Harry, > > On January 2, 2011 03:08:51 am Harry van der Wolf wrote: > > Note: Stable versions for OSX are always released via Sourceforge and > > never via my website. > > Sorry for that. Is there any reason why the betas and release candidates > were > not on Sourcefo

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Harry van der Wolf
2011/1/2 Yuval Levy > On January 1, 2011 06:57:46 am Bruno Postle wrote: > > [Snip making the preview the default GUI] > > > > Any change needs to be considered as a complete user experience: > > > > The 123 load, align, stitch functions need to be very prominent, I'd make > > them huge text and

[hugin-ptx] make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread OS
Hi, i downloaded Hugin "HuginSetup_2010.4.0-64bit_Windows.exe" and installed it on my Windows 7 x64. Everything work fine, until i try to create the pano. Then i got the following message: === _MG_0176.CR2 _MG_0176_8B_NoComp-

[hugin-ptx] Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread prokoudine
Hi, Someone nicknamed olegsov told me at linux.org.ru he had to calculate polynomial for his Samyang 8mm lens himself. The equation is: r = 1.3131967461747968e-05 + p * (0.00064446589664794328 + p*(5.6064710793791478e-09 - p*1.1398055689036795e-11)) What's the best way to get this into Hugin an

[hugin-ptx] Re: Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread prokoudine
On Jan 2, 6:30 pm, prokoudine wrote: > Hi, > > Someone nicknamed olegsov told me at linux.org.ru he had to calculate > polynomial for his Samyang 8mm lens himself. > > The equation is: > > r = 1.3131967461747968e-05 + p * (0.00064446589664794328 + > p*(5.6064710793791478e-09 - p*1.1398055689036795

Re: [hugin-ptx] Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 10:30:27 am prokoudine wrote: > r = 1.3131967461747968e-05 + p * (0.00064446589664794328 + > p*(5.6064710793791478e-09 - p*1.1398055689036795e-11)) > > What's the best way to get this into Hugin and/or panotools? a/b/c parameters Yuv signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: [hugin-ptx] make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 10:22:29 am OS wrote: > /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(6' > /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: `echo Operating System: Windows 7 (6.1 )' > make: *** [info] Error 258 > > > Does anybody know what i am doing wrong?? can you please post the .pto and .pto.mk f

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 10:09:08 am Harry van der Wolf wrote: > 2011/1/2 Yuval Levy > > I'd look at EXIF from the start. and at the quantity of images being > > dropped > > / added. but yes, starting in the middle is a good... start :) > > I agree with the "deck of cards" approach and completely dis

[hugin-ptx] Installing compressed man pages

2011-01-02 Thread Kornel Benko
Hi Yuv, I tried your idea to install compressed man pages. Looks useful. At least on my system it works flawlessly. May I commit? Kornel # Windows does not have a man page system # TODO: it would be nice to convert the POD files to a text that is # useful for Windows, and put this d

Re: [hugin-ptx] make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread Harry van der Wolf
2011/1/2 OS > Hi, > > i downloaded Hugin "HuginSetup_2010.4.0-64bit_Windows.exe" and > installed it on my Windows 7 x64. Everything work fine, until i try to > create the pano. Then i got the following message: > > === > _MG_

[hugin-ptx] Re: make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread kfj
On 2 Jan., 16:22, OS wrote: = > _MG_0176.CR2 _MG_0176_8B_NoComp-_MG_0179_8B_NoComp.log You aren't perchance trying to process RAW files with hugin? (I noticed the .CR2 extension) Hugin doesn't work with RAW images, you have to use a raw converter first and feed hugin the TIFFs or JPGs. Kay --

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:37:41 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > On December 30, 2010 07:59:36 pm Bruno Postle wrote: >> I think there are people who shoot some photos on holiday, >> install Hugin when they get home, and get a reasonable stitch >> without problems. > >> Hugin is also the de-facto panorama

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread john doe
I was thinking how about making a window at the beginning that asks the user if he wants to run Hugin as a normal panorama stitcher or in HDR mode?? Then you show the fast preview window mode with a black background, on the right there would be a control panel with the 123 load, align and stitch

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision

2011-01-02 Thread Roger Goodman
On 1/2/2011 9:37 AM, Yuval Levy wrote: On January 2, 2011 03:58:53 am Rogier Wolff wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:11:24PM -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: On December 30, 2010 10:38:36 am Rogier Wolff wrote: Disagree. That assistant tab assist is a nuisance to the power user and a deception to the

[hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread kfj
On 2 Jan., 15:37, Yuval Levy wrote: > currently a CP line in the PTO file looks like: > > c n0 N1 x2319.75430140533 y1306.89102657256 X635.409481924115 > Y1295.02701452379 t0 > > what would it take to expand it to: > > c n0 N1 x2319.75430140533 y1306.89102657256 X635.409481924115 > Y1295.027014

[hugin-ptx] Re: Order of Transformations

2011-01-02 Thread kfj
On 1 Jan., 20:50, Joshua Stults wrote: > BTW, thank you for your Python pto > parser; very useful.  Getting everything into python so easily makes > trying stuff out way easier. You're welcome! I hope there will be more pythonic activity soon. An item on the wishlist is definitely to have Pyth

Re: [hugin-ptx] Order of Transformations

2011-01-02 Thread Joshua Stults
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Joshua Stults wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:15 AM, kfj <_...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> As far as the X,Y and Z parameters are concerned, I found this >> helpful: >> http://wiki.panotools.org/Stiching_a_photo-mosaic > Thank you; that is a *very* helpful picture on the

[hugin-ptx] Re: control point generator help needed

2011-01-02 Thread kfj
On 1 Jan., 20:32, Yuval Levy wrote: > First:  I updated the ptoimggen.py script to deal with Windows paths.  I love > Python.  Attached (for Kay). Yuval, I suppose you want to make sure that, when using the script on a Unix machine, ptos coming from Windows users will be properly treated. But

[hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread kevin
Kay, Thanks for the script, it works great! It's helped in speeding up CP optimization greatly. -- 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 available at: http://wiki.panot

[hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread kfj
On 2 Jan., 20:33, kevin wrote: > Kay, > > Thanks for the script, it works great!  It's helped in speeding up CP > optimization greatly. You're welcome! By now my change to pano_trafo has also made it into the repo, so if you grab the latest code and build it, a version of pano_trafo which can b

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 01:21:46 pm Roger Goodman wrote: > And as a follow-on to that question, how about "Do you need > help to calibrate your lens?" Some of us less-technical users don't > know how to do things of this nature. This should call another wizard > (script), to walk the user th

Re: [hugin-ptx] Installing compressed man pages

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 10:47:24 am Kornel Benko wrote: > Hi Yuv, > I tried your idea to install compressed man pages. Looks useful. At least > on my system it works flawlessly. May I commit? yes, go ahead please. and: you really do not need to ask for permission to commit, unless you suspect that yo

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 11:19:09 am Robert Krawitz wrote: > > Starting from the end: no projections other than equirect. For > > everything else there is Panini (and a friendly notice at the end of > > the process telling users where to get it). > > Equirectangular may work well for a full spherical p

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: control point generator help needed

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 02:33:31 pm kfj wrote: > name = re.sub ( '.*[/\\]' , '' , line.n.value ) > > which discards everything up to the last slash or backslash. What do > you say? that you're the Python King and I have been away from Windows for too long to care ;-) well done, Kay. Yuv signature.

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Order of Transformations

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 01:56:28 pm kfj wrote: > On 1 Jan., 20:50, Joshua Stults wrote: > > Is what's on sourceforge > > [0] the latest and greatest? I noticed some messages on the list > > that you guys are moving away from using source-forge, is the SVN > > there still the working repo? > > the r

[hugin-ptx] Re: Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread sov ecosc
I am olegsov from linux,org.ru (gmail olegsov was taken by someone else). a,b,c parameters are distortion parameters for rectilinear lens type, correct? The polynomial provided is not a distortion polynomial, it is a function that maps the distance from center (p in the formula), in pixels, to th

[hugin-ptx] Re: Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread sov ecosc
Hi, This is not a distortion correction polynomial, this is a projection function - p is pixel distance from the center, r is angle in radians between lens axis and "viewing direction", so to say, of that pixel. It probably can be used to obtain a,b,c distortion parameters for the closest existin

[hugin-ptx] Re: make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread OS
Hi, thank you for your help. The "old" version of hugin (2009.4.0 32bit) does not have problems with these picutres or others. i tried more panoramas ... @Harry: The names are all like "_MG_0176_8B_NoComp.tif". So nothing bad or? @Kay: the raw are beside of the tiffs. After your post i tried to

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread dmg
Oleg, would you mind sending me a photo with prominent straight lines? Like a building shot straight forward. I will interested to look into this lens type, and potentially add a new projection. We believe it is a stereographic type of lens. --dmg > It probably can be used to obtain a,b,c dist

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 12:52:53 pm OS wrote: > @Yuv The files are attached. > > Here ist the .pto.mk file: this is not an attachment. you copy&pasted the file into the message. not the same. not useful because line numbers can't be easily discerned and lines may be broken by the submission form.

Re: [hugin-ptx] Installing compressed man pages

2011-01-02 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011 schrieb Yuval Levy: > On January 2, 2011 10:47:24 am Kornel Benko wrote: > > Hi Yuv, > > I tried your idea to install compressed man pages. Looks useful. At least > > on my system it works flawlessly. May I commit? > > yes, go ahead please. and: you really do not need t

[hugin-ptx] Re: make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread OS
Hi, i am new to google groups. Can you give me a hint how i can attach a file to this post? I tried to upload the files under the point "files", but with no success i can not attache it to the post?! The link to both files are: http://hugin-ptx.googlegroups.com/web/_MG_0176_8B_NoComp-_MG_017

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 05:21:44 pm OS wrote: > Hi, > > i am new to google groups. Can you give me a hint how i can attach a > file to this post? I tried to upload the files under the point > "files", but with no success i can not attache it to the post?! AFAIK the GoogleGroups web interface sucks

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: control point generator help needed

2011-01-02 Thread Bruno Postle
On Thu 30-Dec-2010 at 08:14 -0800, kfj wrote: With images like that, you're asking for trouble. Your images are narrow-angle, and the content is often barely more than blank walls or featureless surfaces. You can't reasonably expect a CP generator to find CPs in this situation. One way of w

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread Bruno Postle
On Sun 02-Jan-2011 at 10:38 -0800, kfj wrote: #-hugin cpWeight s0 a0 w100 AFAIK this is established practice for introducing additional ('noncritical') values into the pto without breaking compatibility with other pto-using programs. It is used for Hugin GUI metadata that doesn't materially a

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Bruno Postle
On Sat 01-Jan-2011 at 17:11 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: On December 26, 2010 07:07:29 pm Bruno Postle wrote: Hugin doesn't have a usable way to share lens and camera information between users, you basically have to recalculate this every time you create a project. A user can record his lens.ini f

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Bruno Postle
On Sun 02-Jan-2011 at 09:37 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: On January 1, 2011 06:57:46 am Bruno Postle wrote: [Snip making the preview the default GUI] The 123 load, align, stitch functions need to be very prominent, I'd make them huge text and overlay them over the preview canvas itself so this is

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Bruno Postle
On Sun 02-Jan-2011 at 09:37 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: it's actually *mis* guiding. I am not against having a good assistant. but the current assistant is nothing more than a blind run through the different tabs with no guidance but raising the expectation of guidance. It actually has quite a

Re: [hugin-ptx] make: *** [info] Error 258

2011-01-02 Thread Bruno Postle
/usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(6' /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: `echo Operating System: Windows 7 (6.1 )' make: *** [info] Error 258 The error appears to be in the Makefile, this line isn't a valid bash/sh command: echo Operating System: Windows 7 (6.1) This loo

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: idea for CP deletion

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 01:38:46 pm kfj wrote: > the C parser used by hugin would probably throw a fit you'll be surprised to know that Hugin took a hand-crafted pto file with s/a/w parameters without any problem, and ran the optimization as if they were not there. So from that perspective, we can a

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Samyang 8mm polynomial

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 04:19:35 pm dmg wrote: > I will interested to look into this lens type, and potentially add a > new projection. > > We believe it is a stereographic type of lens. Michel Thoby did a comprehensive study [0]. There are some sample images there. I contacted him for more. Yuv

Re: [hugin-ptx] Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 06:35:20 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > On Sun 02-Jan-2011 at 09:37 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > >it's actually *mis* guiding. I am not against having a good assistant. > >but the current assistant is nothing more than a blind run through the > >different tabs with no guidance but rais

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 06:35:11 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > On Sun 02-Jan-2011 at 09:37 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > >the project would be automatically updated after every new image is added, > >incrementally. > > We are nowhere near having photo matching work at the speed > necessary for this, this has t

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Product Vision (was:An idea to expand HDR)

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 06:35:02 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > On Sat 01-Jan-2011 at 17:11 -0500, Yuval Levy wrote: > >On December 26, 2010 07:07:29 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > >> Hugin doesn't have a usable way to share lens and camera information > >> between users, you basically have to recalculate this ever

Re: [hugin-ptx] Installing compressed man pages

2011-01-02 Thread Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 05:07:11 pm Kornel Benko wrote: > I am used to discuss first and then commit. makes sense for non-trivial stuff. thanks for committing. Yuv signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.