Re: [hugin-ptx] 2nd Panini Video demo

2011-03-03 Thread D M German
Tom Sharpless twisted the bytes to say: Tom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj69gzOF8JA . Did you see this video: Panini Unwrapped :):) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc2PuL--jf0NR=1 Tom 720 x 480 DV from a Sony Handicam with an Opteka 0.41x semi-fisheye Tom adapter, Tom hfov 125 degrees.

Re: [hugin-ptx] Panini-Video

2011-02-17 Thread D M German
I did something similar with the Wii, to record that data and send it to the computer as I was taking the photos. The problem is, the wii is an accelerometer and it works when the camera is stationary, but would not work for a moving camera. It would be interesting to rig something using an

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2011 Announced

2011-02-08 Thread D M German
Whether by reverse engineering (is that what you mean with cleanroom?) or by following the specs to the letter, one important ingredient is lacking: motivation. Roger I'm not even sure it would require reverse engineering, as that work has already been done in ImageMagick, for

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: parser for hugin PTO format

2011-02-06 Thread D M German
kfj That's how I did it. In a beginning-of-line context accept all kfj conventional line-headers plus the 'meaningful comment' type as legal kfj line-type tokens. This seems to be the least painful route. Luckily kfj line beginnings like '# hugin' don't seem to contain meaning but only kfj

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: parser for hugin PTO format

2011-02-03 Thread D M German
No. :) we need to document them. At this point my goal has been to create a mapping from PTO to txt formats (txt is the libpano format). kfj It's been pointed out that those 'cousins' of hugin which also use pto kfj dialects seem to give a damn about compatibility (I think some are

[hugin-ptx] parser for hugin PTO format

2011-02-02 Thread D M German
Hi everybody, I undusted the code I started few years ago and finally completed a working prototype: https://bitbucket.org/dmgerman/panoparser (it is here temporarily until sourceforge gives us shell access again). If you download it and compile it, you will find that it creates a program

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: parser for hugin PTO format

2011-02-02 Thread D M German
THe idea of this parser is old: if we have a single parser (as a library) we can then have multiple tools reading (and perhaps generating) these files. kfj Precisely. I wish I'd known of your work when I wrote my Python parser kfj for pto files some months ago. I might even have made a

[hugin-ptx] mask lines in PTO files

2011-02-02 Thread D M German
I am curious, are the mask lines (k-lines) in PTO files order dependent? I am wondering if they should be assigned to data structures of the image, or they should be a separate data structure. In other words, if the order of the lines changes in the file (the k-lines), will their meaning change?

[hugin-ptx] libpanorama

2011-02-01 Thread D M German
in the move from SVN to Mercurial, what happened with libpanorama? I have finally completed the bison parser for PTO files (I think) and I was trying to commit to subversion, and the module is no longer for write access. --dmg -- -- Daniel M. German

[hugin-ptx] documentation for PTO file?

2011-02-01 Thread D M German
Hi Everybody, I am trying to revamp the parser of libpano to make it compatible with PTO files. Is there a document that describes it? For example, what is the meaning of the variable 'j' in the image lines? -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/

[hugin-ptx] how good is the thoby for the Nikkor 10.5?

2011-01-07 Thread D M German
hi everybody, Now that the thoby Projection is available in Hugin/panotools I was able to run some tests using my 10.5 on a Full frame camera (5dII) I can say that the thoby is a better match than what we call circular fisheye. How much better? It is hard to tell, as we don't have a good that

[hugin-ptx] new version of libpano

2011-01-06 Thread D M German
I have just bumped the version of libpano to 2.9.18. This should avoid any problems with people who try to use the new projections without the proper library. --dmg -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace

[hugin-ptx] unable to find boost

2011-01-06 Thread D M German
This morning I was able to build hugin, then I pull the change by T. Modes and cmake complaints that it can't find boost: I have checked my installed libraries, and boost is there (as I said, it was there this morning before I pull this change). Unfortunately I am clueless on how to see what

[hugin-ptx] libpano updated

2011-01-05 Thread D M German
I have added the Thoby projection for the Nikkor 10.5. It is now in subversion. I have called it after Michel Thoby who was able to empirically find it. If this projection helps with other lenses, I'll add parameters to it. The input projection number is 20. Would the hugin developers add it to

[hugin-ptx] So, how good is the Thoby projection in a APS-C?

2011-01-05 Thread D M German
Hi everybody, I just committed a change that will enable PToptimizer to handle the Thoby projection. I undusted a spherical 360/180 project I had lying around. Unfortunately it was shot with a 20d, but i took good care of setting control points. This was my calibration shot for the Nikkor on my

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin coordinate system

2011-01-04 Thread D M German
Hi Joshua, Sorry I haven't replied to you earlier. Once my email piles up, it takes some time for me to go over it. We basically have two translations. The one implemented by Pablo, and used by Hugin, and the one implemented by Dev and I, which is not directly available from Hugin. I don't

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Panini patents?

2010-08-31 Thread D M German
Tom That was my conclusion also. Next time I revise the Panini-general Tom code in libpano13 I shall put it under GPLv3. Tom For version 1 of my Panini viewer/perspective tool I am using the Tom Apache license, which is GPLv3 compatible but also allows a bit more Tom restrictive

Re: [hugin-ptx] Panini patents?

2010-08-05 Thread D M German
Thomas I'm sure the trick is doable, but it clearly needs both good Thomas legal preparation and good management of the patent rights.  Thomas Which in turn need to be sustained by some revenue.  So it Thomas won't happen unless I can actually find some customers who want Thomas to build and

Re: [hugin-ptx] 2010 Summer of Code projects announced

2010-04-27 Thread D M German
This is great news! -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups hugin and other free panoramic

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: GSoC - Regression tests for pano13

2010-04-17 Thread D M German
Tomasz Hi Tomasz I created new testing tool written in python. It is available on: Tomasz http://hugin-ptx.googlegroups.com/web/tests2.tar.gz?gda=yI6jqj8_m-Bmjzq5Pt_LOx1JMF0oI0W3JwwUvub6K5WnpSjMggDPXttxP6-sUHRZBFW1F7iccyFKn-rNKC-d1pM_IdV0gsc=PVzG9gs75cSDwTgOMIvO-SxrrAdu Tomasz

Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: Equisolid and Stereographic working

2010-03-30 Thread D M German
When a,b,c,d,e are different from zero, I get the same results (a perfect 360/180 panorama) with either projection (PTmender - emblend) (input is 8 photos, with a 40D). I haven't tested it fullframe. It might be a different story. Robert You can model equisolid with equidistant

[hugin-ptx] implementing other fish eye input projections

2010-03-28 Thread D M German
Hi everybody, Some people have recently mentioned that it would be useful to implement new input projections in libpano/hugin to support a wider variety of fisheye lenses (i.e. samyang stereographic lenses, and potentially fine tune projections to fisheye lenses). I spent some time this weekend

Re: [hugin-ptx] GSOC 2010 – Accepted

2010-03-20 Thread D M German
Bruno Postle twisted the bytes to say: Bruno On Thu 18-Mar-2010 at 21:00 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: I've just got a great news – it seems that hugin was accepted[1] for the Google summer of code 2010! [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010

[hugin-ptx] fixed autoconf for libpano

2010-01-17 Thread D M German
The HEAD of libpano should now be compilable using autoconf/automake. --dmg -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[hugin-ptx] Re: [PanoTools-devel] general panini and its parametrization

2010-01-01 Thread D M German
that will allow you to continue your work is to divide the values in the sliders by 10 (specify 20 instead of 2) and then divide in your code by the same factor. yes, a hack, but at least you can keep working... --dmg Thomas -- Tom Thomas On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM, D M German d...@uvic.ca

[hugin-ptx] bug in libpano/PTmender

2009-12-27 Thread D M German
FYI, Adding Tr parameters to the script will restrict the output of the any remapped image be at most 180 degrees, even if it can spawn longer (such as most of the cylindrical panoramas). I am not sure why this happens yet. --dmg -- -- Daniel M. German

[hugin-ptx] Re: [PanoTools-devel] bug in libpano/PTmender

2009-12-27 Thread D M German
Hi Pablo, Pablo D M German wrote: FYI, Adding Tr parameters to the script will restrict the output of the any remapped image be at most 180 degrees, even if it can spawn longer (such as most of the cylindrical panoramas). I am not sure why this happens yet. Pablo Only images

Re: [hugin-ptx] New tutorial, surveying buildings with Hugin

2009-12-14 Thread D M German
Hi Bruno, Very impressive! --dmg -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups hugin and other free

[hugin-ptx] it works!

2009-09-26 Thread D M German
The spherical model of libpano places some constraints on the Tr model, but with few adaptions it works. This is 11 photos taken along a narrow alley. the stair effect will show you where those photos are: http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/wall.jpg -- -- Daniel M. German

[hugin-ptx] Re: Canon 7D or SONY Alpha 850 - which one would you buy?

2009-09-26 Thread D M German
Yuval I would assume such a group to have, on average, a biased opinion and I Yuval am not looking for fan answers. Actually the best feedback I got so far Yuval is from Nikon users :) Hi Yuv, Most of use are biased... because we don't use both cameras most of the time. I personally

[hugin-ptx] I just committed the following:

2009-09-25 Thread D M German
In a nutshell, First warning. I had to reindent some functions. use svn diff -x -w to get diffs with whitespace ignored. * tilt parameters have been renamed to TiX, TiY, TiZ, and TiS. TiX, TiY, TiZ are now properly bound to -180,180 degrees. TiS can't be zero nor negative. * mosaic

[hugin-ptx] cmake not working

2009-09-18 Thread D M German
I have a problem with the cmake configuration for libpano. -- d...@phosphorus:~/hacking/libpano$ cmake CMakeLists.txt CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:38 (include): include could not find load file: HuginMacros CMake

[hugin-ptx] Re: Cleaning Up Libpano integration

2009-09-14 Thread D M German
Yuval Levy twisted the bytes to say: Yuval dmg wrote: Would it be possible for someone to describe in the libpano mailing list what the problem is? Yuval I tried. Seems that my message awaits moderation. Hi Yuv, I don't know who is the moderator of the panotools-devel. Bruno, Jim,

[hugin-ptx] libpano

2009-09-10 Thread D M German
I have committed the changes to support tilt of the camera in PToptimizer and PTmender. See the ChangeLog for details. the new parameters are: Tx, Ty, Tz, and Ts (for scale). --dmg -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at)

[hugin-ptx] optimization of calculations in PTmender

2009-09-10 Thread D M German
Hi everybody, For those using (or wanting to use PTmender). for the sake of maintainability I have used only matrix multiplications right now. I am going to wait until we are sure about their correctness before I expand them. By the way, in the process of hacking the stack, I discovered

[hugin-ptx] Tilt transformation...

2009-09-09 Thread D M German
(this code was brought to you by Google :) As you might know, Dev Gosh was one of Google Summer of Code students. Unfortunately he only completed part of his project. His idea was to allow for the rotation of the camera plane in two axis: around x, and around y. He did a good job with the

[hugin-ptx] how to add another parameter to the optimization?

2009-09-07 Thread D M German
hi Everybody, i am trying to finish and integrate the tilt function that Dev implemented during the summer. I have everything working except the optimization. I just can't understand the optimizer varies parameters, and how to instruct it to vary the values of the tilt. (yes, i have modified

[hugin-ptx] bug in shear parameter handling: READ IT if you use them!

2009-08-14 Thread D M German
Hi Everybody, There was a bug in panotools. It involves the parameters g and t (it has survived since their conception). In a nutshell, they have never worked properly. More specifically, its inverse was wrongly computed when both g and t were different from zero (I can elaborate on why, if

[hugin-ptx] cropped output

2009-08-13 Thread D M German
Hi Dev, I just checked the code. The current version of PTmender does not support uncropped output (that is done now by PTuncrop), except when the input image is fisheye. Processing cropped is done for performance reasons. It greatly speeds up processing (PTmender is significantly faster

[hugin-ptx] Re: Libpano locale fix

2009-07-31 Thread D M German
Hi Yuv, I have looked at the patch and this is the improper way to deal with this problem. It modifies a bunch of functions to reset the locale. It is too cross-cutting. Have you looked at the patch? It is basically ~40 insertions of this code: +setlocale(LC_ALL,old_locale); +

[hugin-ptx] Files without license

2009-07-26 Thread D M German
Hi Everybody, I was going over the license statements in files in Hugin and discovered that the following files contain no license statement: ./src/hugin1/tests/test_projections.cpp ./src/hugin1/tools/color_correct_tiff.cpp ./src/hugin1/tools/img2vips.cpp

[hugin-ptx] License of file lu.c in hugin

2009-07-26 Thread D M German
Dear Antoine, I was going over the license statements of files in Hugin and I noticed that one file of which you are the author (src/hugin_base/hugin_math/lu.c) is licensed under the GPLv2. /* * * Licensed under the GPLv2 */ All other files in hugin as licensed under 'Version 2 of the

[hugin-ptx] Re: GSoC patch ideas

2009-04-21 Thread D M German
I am sorry Guido I dropped the ball from this. (This discussion should go into libpano, but there is also an issue with hugin). Hi Guido, I am looking at your patch right now, and I see you changed some of the computations. The biggest one I don't quite follow is: replacing: - C =