Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Carl von Einem
Hi Simon, Wim once posted a nice list of notes for his talk at the panotools meeting 2011 in Vienna: where he also links to a very nice and helpful tutorial he wrote:

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Need help / Feedback on my workflow

2016-04-22 Thread Carl von Einem
Hi Sukima, Sukima wrote on 22.04.16 01:13: I've tried several times to figure out the focus with the fisheye. Every time I can't seem to tell the difference between infinity and 0.4 ft! Maybe I need my eyes checked. I use the same type of lens (branded as "Walimex pro" AE 8mm 1:3.5 Fish-eye

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 03:14:21PM -0700, Simon Bethke wrote: > Hi, > I am an amateur photographer and lately got a Gear VR device so I wanted to > try some VR Stuff. > Testing free panorama tools, I found that Hugin was the only free tool > providing decent results. Also, my 'Fisheye' lens uses

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Need help / Feedback on my workflow

2016-04-22 Thread Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)
2016-04-22 6:56 GMT-03:00 Carl von Einem : > Do you mean when I'm hand holding the tripod assembly to get the portion >> of the nadir that is covered with the tripod footprint into the center >> of the fisheye lens that I should lower the camera closer to the ground? >> Doesn't this make parallax

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)
2016-04-22 9:12 GMT-03:00 Sean Greenslade : > The advice from that forum post in the other reply seems to be pretty > good. Keep the number of photos as low as possible to keep the number of > seams down, and avoid very close objects to the camera (which cause the > most severe parallax). > > I ha

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Simon Bethke
Interesing link. Unfortunately, everything Wim talks about is stuff, I already found out the hard way ;) Really, he explains exactly the process i do with Hugin without me knowing of his work :D Am Freitag, 22. April 2016 11:14:21 UTC+2 schrieb zarl: > > Hi Simon, > > Wim once posted a nice lis

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Simon Bethke
I am not saying that non-NPP issues are a shortcomunig of Hugin. I am saying, that morphing the controlpoints in a way a texture is mapped on a wireframe model (using baricentric coordinates in a triangle) will allow stitching non-NPP panoramas without visible seams. The biggest issue then will

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Carl von Einem
You _already_ found out? Does that say you have examples from before summer of 2011? Simon Bethke wrote on 22.04.16 15:24: Interesing link. Unfortunately, everything Wim talks about is stuff, I already found out the hard way ;) Really, he explains exactly the process i do with Hugin without me

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Simon Bethke
No no no :) I found that out the last weeks. I just didn't know about his experiences. Am Freitag, 22. April 2016 15:56:38 UTC+2 schrieb zarl: > > You _already_ found out? Does that say you have examples from before > summer of 2011? > > Simon Bethke wrote on 22.04.16 15:24: > > Interesing link

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Carl von Einem
Hi Sean and Carlos, I followed Wim's tutorial (see my earlier message) and my results looked great on Oculus Rift. As for the number of images the workflow reminded me of the ObjectVR shots I did around 1997: for me 36 images are a good number of frames to process. With 36 steps for one panora

Re: [hugin-ptx] Stereoscopic Panoramas

2016-04-22 Thread Carl von Einem
I know we have no tutorial (yet) about this technique on http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/ and unfortunately no earlier discussion on this list mentioning his findings. Simon Bethke wrote on 22.04.16 16:03: No no no :) I found that out the last weeks. I just didn't know about his experie

Re: [hugin-ptx] Errors, can't seem to fix

2016-04-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 5:36:04 -0700, Mike Mackinven wrote: > I am getting this error: > > Error. External program enblend not found as specified in preferences, > reverting to bundled version > > And then Hugin stalls and won't do anything. I have redownloaded Hugin > twice now, deleted all

Re: [hugin-ptx] Mac Build

2016-04-22 Thread Sukima
The spinning ball of heaven is happening to me on el capitain with Hugin version 2014 so it is possible there are Mac bugs long lived that are not unique to this new build. For reference to reproduce open Hugin and set interface to expert. Then select mask. Click crop. Click mask. Force quit ca