Hi Tom, On Jun 6, 1:32 pm, Tom Sharpless <tksharpl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our stitchers still stubbornly refuse to ask for directions.
actually it is our optimizers and that's not entirely true. I've had consistently better results by starting with a template that includes lens parameters and "standardized" image positions for my workflow. > Would it really be so hard to add a 'shooting grid' that lets the > photographer specify roughly the directions of the views? IMHO this could make sense as a help to create the template, but I think starting with a template can yield better results. > That would surely help avoid false control points on highly symmetric > scenes, and more important, would save much of the CPU time now spent > uselessly looking for control points in wrong places. yes, the optimizer should look into the template and try to generate CPs only for images that are overlapping. If I am not mistaken Bruno has a perl tool for this in his PanoTools? Yuv -- 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