[ptx] thoughts for hugin UI, post 0.5

[Sebastian Nowozin]

Hi Rob and the others,


Rob Park wrote:

>>The warping of the images (roll, pitch, yaw, lens distortion and projection
>>type) requires that an interpolation of the new pixel positions be done. The
>>interpolator type determines the speed and quality of this interpolation.
>>Take a look at
>>http://photocreations.ca/interpolator/
>>and it's associated link

> Sorry, I know (at a high level) what interpolation _is_ (from scaling
> images with GIMP), what I meant is that I'm not sure what effect
> changing it would actually have on the output.

I agree that this is quite confusing to most users.  Except you have an 
indepth knowledge about interpolation and reconstruction filters, you 
cannot tell what the actual difference between Sinc 256 and Sinc 1024 is 
(besides, I cannot distinguish their results visually).  And if you do 
happen to have that knowledge, you still wonder what kind of windowing 
function is used.

For most users it would be nicer to have some quality-profile, like 
"fast (for preview)", "fair" and "maximum quality (slow)" which takes 
care of those settings (and other related settings, for example in 
autopano-sift (whether to enable refinement, downscale resolution, etc.) 
and enblend (number of levels)).


Regards,
Sebastian