hugin update

[Peter Suetterlin]

Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 10.11.03, 19:31 +0100 schrieb Peter Suetterlin:
> 
> > Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> >
> > > Other than I mentioned on 6.oktober no new stitcheris
> > > needed. Instead telling to render the whole picture area, as today,
> > > we only to render the ROI. This is very simple and enough.
> >
> > Not sure - is that possible?  I mean, with the standard pano tools?
> 
> Not all in one script, but one by one should work.

Ah, so first computing where they should go, then rendering it at yaw=0?
I guess the full height is then still needed.
Main problem will be the wrap-around images of 260 degree panos (I use
those as 'start images' of full size)...

> > I'm actually using this, sort of.  It is the only way for me to do
> > huge (>10000x5000) spherical panos:
> > I use an external program to crop the created tiffs down to the
> > non-black area and write their positions out.  Then I load them with a
> > small GIMP plug-in that gets name and position and creates a new layer
> > from that file, put at the correct location...  A lot of handwork, but
> > *way* faster than waiting for gimp swapping itself to death...
> 
> Ok so one person more who could benefit ;)
> Sounds like my hand work of aligning all TIFF_m files each over the other
> in filmgimp before multilayers was available.

I tried this, too, but normally ended up with quite some pixels
difference after 360 degrees :-(

> > Isn't there a (simple) way to create gimps native xcf format?  Then no
> > patches would be needed...
> 
> The developers of gimp discourage everybody to do this. XCF is like PSD a
> not for portability designed format. Tiff is portable, easy to use
> (libtiff), well documented ! Too much work for outsiders with xcf.
> As well xcf is not 16-bit capable. Cinepaints xcf is broken and will be
> substituded by a selfexplaining format - cpx. Xcf the same - I expect they
> will not use a conform format. ImageMagic at least understands tiff layers
> as animation.

OK, very good arguments - I give up :-/
Looks like I'll have to compile my own (patched) gimp very soon :-))

  Pit