new features (estimate ala PanoPoints)

[Ed Halley]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 04:43, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
> Pablo d'Angelo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've added another feature to the control point picker, inspired from
> > PanoPoints. It is possible to estimate the translation of the images by
> > averaging the control points.
> 
> Hmm, it shouldn't be too difficult to get translation *and* rotation.
> maybe use the normal optimizer functions?  For only a few points that
> should be very fast.  Then the matching should be better even with
> non-horizontal images - maybe good enough to feed that position to the
> auto picker.

Actually, when I first saw the preview pane, I thought it was just
asking panotools to run a much-reduced, much-simplified version of the
job in the background:  small output dimensions, no interpolation, no
feathering, no color control, and only thumbnail image sources.

I see that's not the case now, but maybe it could/should be revisited to
simplify the preview code while getting better results.

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