[ptx] Re: [PanoTools] Re: Open source panorama toolchain (was:Nona)

[Rik Littlefield]

See also http://www.janrik.net/insects/ExtendedDOF/index.html for some 
recent extreme closeup work done with CombineZ5.
--Rik

Brian Innes wrote:

> Hal V Engel wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 30 April 2005 12:56 pm, Luca Vascon wrote:
>>
>> snip
>>
>>  
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Rik Littlefield" <rj.littlefield at computer.org>
>>> To: <PanoTools at yahoogroups.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:11 PM
>>> Subject: [PanoTools] Re: Open source panorama toolchain (was:Nona)
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> --- In PanoTools at yahoogroups.com, Bruno Postle <bruno at p...> wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> ... there is
>>>>> a complete and open-source toolchain available for producing high
>>>>> quality panoramas:
>>>>>
>>>>>  autopano-sift -> hugin -> pano12 -> PTOptimizer -> nona -> enblend
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> There is also now a fully open-source implementation of
>>>> increased-depth-of-field montaging.  Its name is CombineZ5.
>>>>
>>>> CombineZ5 replaces the experimental code that I added to pano12
>>>> last year, which worked only with no-source PTStitcher and had much
>>>> less functionality.
>>>>
>>>> See http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CZ5/combinez5.htm
>>>> and the review article at
>>>> http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_72/essay.html .
>>>>
>>>> --Rik
>>>>     
>>>
>>
>> For those of you running Linux I tried running this in wine and it 
>> appears that this works well enough to be useful.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>>  
>>
> Looks like interesting software Hal.  Guess I'll be installing Wine on 
> my ubuntu64 box and giving this a go!
>
> Cheers
>