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I forgot to mention that the modified sources are posted at the same
site. diff -r -w reports about 700 lines of mods, almost all in
adjust.c and optimizer.c . I get a good view of the changes by firing
up a side-by-side file comparison viewer between my sources and the
ones I got from cvs. (My personal favorite is Beyond Compare,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scootersoftware.com/">http://www.scootersoftware.com/</a> ).<br>
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I will let Jim and Bruno speak to how they like to maintain the cvs
repository.<br>
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--Rik<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 15:15, Rik Littlefield wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A beta version of pano12.dll with an improved optimizer is now available
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.janrik.net/ptools">http://www.janrik.net/ptools</a> .
This is built from the sourceforge cvs as a starting point.
Major improvements/changes include:
* Faster convergence (often *much* faster convergence)
* FOV optimization is stabilized to work better with partial panos
* Control point errors are consistently reported as angular
distance, scaled to pixels at the center of the panorama. (Scaling was
off for partial panos in the old version.)
* Error distance is reported correctly for horizontal/vertical/line
controls
* Added the query feature capability suggested by Joost Nieuwenhuijse
* Modified dll function distSquared to return control point error as
described above, instead of distance squared in image coordinates.
(This change was required to work with existing PTOptimizer.exe's. If
anyone needs the old behavior, we can re-export it under a different name.)
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Great to hear! I wonder if Bruno and Jim would let you create a branch
for this on sourceforge. Then it would be easy to browse all the
changes you have made, and development could go on in parallel until the
code is proven.
JD
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