Why not make Hugin a panorama stitcher and HDR creation tool??PTGUI offers this...We have Luminance to take the HDR tonemapping capabilities from..
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Bruno Postle <brunopos...@googlemail.com>wrote: > On 26 December 2010 23:09, Bruno Postle <brunopos...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > > This post by Peter Sikking is a good read and links to further > > information on both the GIMP and Krita processes: > > http://blog.mmiworks.net/2010/03/working-on-vision-with.html > > > > The basic approach that we should be taking it is to first decide what > > Hugin is and who it is for rather than compiling lists of new features > > I think there are various ways we could describe Hugin: > > Hugin is a panorama stitcher. > > I think this is too simplistic, though it is what practically all new > users are looking for initially. A longer description would be: > > Hugin is software that understands a photograph as a record of light > in a particular time and place, not just a collection of pixels. It > has a sophisticated photometric and lens model, and calculates > parameters for this by comparing photos that are known to overlap. > Hugin can also use this information create a new image from one or > more photos, this new image is a record that itself resembles a > photograph, although potentially from an impossible camera. > > Looking at this second description, two things fall out: > > Hugin doesn't have a usable way to share lens and camera information > between users, you basically have to recalculate this every time you > create a project. > > When Hugin creates an output image it discards all the photometric and > geometric information it knows about this image. Hugin ought to write > metadata to the image that would allow Hugin to use the image as input > at some time in the future. > > This is just my interpretation, a different vision of the software > would indicate other inadequacies, or superfluous features. > > -- > Bruno > > -- > 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<hugin-ptx%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx > -- 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
