Hi Kay,
I was planning to update the FreeBSD package today, but noticed that you
didn't upload the source code for 1.1.5 anywhere.
If this was not intentional, please let me know once you got around to
do so!
Yours,
Robert Clausecker
On 05.02.23 21:58, 'Kay F. Jahnke' via hugin and other free panoramic
software wrote:
Dear all!
I've released lux 1.1.5. Again, most changes are 'behind the scenes',
but there is important new functionality as well: lux now looks at the
EXIF metadata of 'ordinary' rectilinear photographs and figures out
the field of view. With that datum, 'normal' camera images are now
displayed *with automatic perspective correction*. This is especially
useful for panorama work: If you take out snapshots from rectilinear
images, these snapshots will now automatically be geometrically
correct and can be 'fed back into' a panorama. This is good for, e.g.
nadir patches. lux will also recognize a range of panoramic images
made with the 'panorama' function of smartphone camera apps, using a
heuristic to recognize such images, which typically don't have the
required metadata and, therefore, were displayed as flat stripes up to
1.1.4. Introducing such features is, of course, a gamble - there's
bound to be images where the detection doesn't work or goes wrong, but
I've tested it with all image types I could get hold of and hope that
it will work 'most of the time'. Of course you can still override the
automatics.
Another feature worth mentioning is the .lux.ini file. If you put a
file with that name (yes, it has a leading dot!) in your home folder,
lux will look for parameters which it will adopt for the entire
session, just as if you had passed them on the command line. The
syntax is simple - in every line, you put one long option name,
followed by '=' and the intended value, without any white space around
the '=' sign. This is standard .lux syntax, as described in the
documentation.
Apart from these new features, a great many small improvements and bug
fixes should improve the user experience, while the user interface
hasn't changed very much.
There's good news for Mac users: I was given an intel Mac, and so I
could now do building and packaging for the mac myself, and I've made
some progress - I could build a lux 1.1.5 package for intel-based
Macs. I already mentioned with the release of 1.1.4 that lux can now
use highway for time-critical rendering code, and this made it
possible to build a lux version for 'apple silicon', which uses native
ARM NEON SIMD instructions for speed similar to AVX2 on intel
machines. A friend has built lux 1.1.5 with this backend on an *M1
mac* and made a package, which you can find alongside the i86 package
on my download page:
https://bitbucket.org/kfj/pv/downloads
There are also a windows installer, a ZIP file with a portable windows
version, a .deb file for ubuntu 20.10 and one for debian11, plus
updated documentation in HTML format.
The MacOS versions are still not well-integrated with the system, and
I haven't yet managed to create a 'universal binary' which will run on
all macs. Finder integration is also largely missing: using 'open with
lux' on images won't pass the filenames on to lux, so it's best to
start lux and use it's own file select dialog. When running lux in
full-screen mode, the file select dialog may be hidden behind lux'
display - you may have to switch to it's window manually. lux on macs
will use automatic rendering quality adjustment by default to cope
with the typically high resolution on macs.
Enjoy!
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