The name of Hugin itself comes from Norse mythology [0] (Huginn and Muninn [1], which stand for thought and memory respectively, are the ravens who tell Odin how the earth is doing). I think it may be a nice idea to steal another name there.
So... what about Loki? According to its Wikipedia article [2], "Loki assists the gods, and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon and a mare.". Certainly a feature detector assists our precious Hugin, and certainly this sometimes will cause problems (bad matches etc.). I don't know about the internal working but it might do some shape shifting too. Anyway afterwards the images (shapes) will be shifted based on the feature points found. Besides that, Loki sounds a bit like "localize", which is what it does, it localizes points which will be used to connect the images. Of course we could also add a cheesy backronym [3] like "Locally Oriented Keypoint Indexer" (depending on what it actually does under the hood this might or might not be correct), or "Localizer of Orientation independent Keypoints of Interest". Anyone with a cheese-o- matic can think of even nicer backronyms, if you tune the machine correctly. ;-) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym -- Bart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
