Big big thanks. I had written a long, moving post about how much Hugin has evolved etc. but my sucky internet connection eated it. Short version, thanks to everyone involved, Hugin rocks big time. Waiting for the binaries/packages/installers to spread the words to the less techie friends :)
On Oct 5, 1:34 am, Bruno Postle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations to everyone responsible for this release! > > Changes since 0.6.1 > > Hugin has changed enormously in the two years since the 0.6.1 > release, hardly any part of the code has remained untouched. There > have been many many bug-fixes, improvements to the interface and > lots of new features - Here are just some of them: > > Online help > > Hugin now has comprehensive help documentation for the entire user > interface, the manual now includes glossary items explaining many > panorama stitching and related photography concepts. > > Languages > > New translations include Slovak, Korean, Bulgarian and Spanish. This > means that hugin is now usable with a total of twenty languages. > > New Assistant panel > > Creating simple panoramas is much easier, hugin now starts showing > an Assistant with a simple 1-2-3 approach for loading images, > aligning and creating the final output. > > The Assistant will estimate lens and camera parameters, then pick a > suitable output projection and size, advanced options are still > available for manual adjustment. > > Photometric model > > Previous versions of hugin and panotools had basic support for > correcting vignetting and exposure differences between photos. > > This has been completely overhauled, hugin now internally uses the > EMoR model for representing exposure photometrically. This means > that the camera response curve, vignetting, colour balance and > exposure can now be optimised in much the same way as geometrical > properties such as position and lens distortion. > > The result is that blending between photos is better than ever > before. > > HDR > > Previously hugin supported High Dynamic Range imaging solely by > allowing stitching of HDR floating-point TIFF photos - These images > themselves had to be created in another tool. > > Now, thanks to the internal photometric model, hugin can now create > HDR output from normal exposure bracketed photos. The photos don't > have to be perfectly-aligned, they don't even need to be > nearly-aligned or have consistent exposure differences - The hugin > optimiser will sort all this stuff out, and the stitcher will create > OpenEXR or TIFF HDR output files for later tonemapping or use as > lightprobes. > > Exposure blending > > HDR and tonemapping isn't for everybody, enfuse introduced exposure > blending to the world, and hugin supports aligning and fusing > bracketed stacks of photos, perfectly, all as part of the stitching > process. > > So now with hugin-0.7.0 and enblend-3.2 you can create realistic, > photographic panoramas that have no over-exposed or under-exposed > areas. > > Makefile stitching > > hugin-0.7.0 introduces a new stitching back-end: previously the > various stitching tools were executed directly by the GUI, now all > the commands required to generate the output are written to a > Makefile which is then processed independently of hugin itself. > > Aside from easier debugging and customisation; this background > stitching allows you to get on with creating a new project while > waiting for the previous job to finish - Stitching can also be > deferred or shifted to another machine, even 'headless' servers can > now be used. > > Projections > > Hugin has always had the ability to save panoramas using simulated > normal and fisheye lenses, or 360 degree cylindrical and spherical > projections. > > Now a whole series of alternative cartographic mappings are > available, of particular interest are the 'conformal' stereographic > and Mercator projections which can be used to show extremely large > angles of view with no local distortion. > > Project templates > > Hugin project files can now be used as templates for new panorama > projects. This is useful if you take a lot of panoramas with exactly > the same camera positions. > > Other improvements > > There's a whole lot of other new stuff in this release: numbering in > the control-point editor, straight-line control-points, numeric > transform, clicking to rotate the preview, a straighten button, > cropping of the output and probably more. > > Command-line tools > > This release provides new command-line tools: > > * align_image_stack: align a nearly-aligned stack of photos > * pto2mk: create a stitching Makefile from a pto project > * vig_optimise: optimise photometric parameters > * tca_correct: calculate lens chromatic aberration > * hugin_hdrmerge: assemble a bracketed stack to HDR > * matchpoint: classify control point features > > Control point generators > > Hugin doesn't yet ship with a 'Patent Free' control point generator. > So you either need to pick control points manually - Not as > difficult as it sounds - or install and configure one of the > following control-point generators as 'plug-ins', in no particular > order: > > * autopano-sift-C > * panomatic > * Autopano-SIFT > * Autopano freeware version > > Upgrading > > Upgrading from previous versions of hugin should be seamless. If you > do have problems with old settings, these can be reset in the > Preferences by clicking 'Load defaults'. > > See the the README and INSTALL_cmake files for more information. > > Thanks to all the contributors to this release and members of the > ptx mailing list, too many to mention here. > > Hugin can be found athttp://hugin.sourceforge.net/ > > Hugin sourcecode can be downloaded from sourceforge: > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_... > > Binary releases are expected to follow in the next few days. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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