[hugin-ptx] Re: Obsolete programs and outdated translations

2013-05-12 Thread RueiKe
Hi Thomas, It has been a long time since I have worked on the Chinese Traditional translation... I think I can get back to it and work to improve. Though it may take a while... Rick On Thursday, May 9, 2013 4:09:27 PM UTC+8, T. Modes wrote: Hi group, the hugin repository contains a

[hugin-ptx] Re: Declaring 2010.4.0 final and moving on

2011-01-01 Thread RueiKe
, On December 27, 2010 06:20:34 am RueiKe wrote: Thanks Yuv for your very detailed response! happy to read that it helped. I can usually acheive about 0.3 pixel mean error for a 16k wide pano. beware of this metrics.  It is blind to the quality of the CPs and thus to the real quality

[hugin-ptx] Re: Declaring 2010.4.0 final and moving on

2011-01-01 Thread RueiKe
faces from nominal exposure layers like in this example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rueike/5306085871/ 2) Using the exposure layers for hdr layers to overlay with the enfusion for better contrast 3) Using various exposure layers overlayed and masked in gimp for improved dynamic range. This examples

[hugin-ptx] Re: Declaring 2010.4.0 final and moving on

2010-12-27 Thread RueiKe
detailed response! Regards, Rick On Dec 27, 12:39 pm, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: Hi Rick, On December 26, 2010 09:33:28 pm RueiKe wrote: My attempt to use the latest build on a typical complex project indicates significant issues. I downloaded your PTO file but did not have time

[hugin-ptx] Re: Declaring 2010.4.0 final and moving on

2010-12-27 Thread RueiKe
points. I can usually get a defect free stitch with a 21mm lens using this technique, but I agree there are probably simpiler methods. Regards, Rick On Dec 27, 7:48 pm, kfj _...@yahoo.com wrote: On 27 Dez., 12:20, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: The project did use a pano head, so all stacks

[hugin-ptx] Re: Declaring 2010.4.0 final and moving on

2010-12-27 Thread RueiKe
can be found along with some description of the process here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rueike/ Regards, Rick On Dec 27, 8:50 pm, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: Hi Rick, On December 27, 2010 06:20:34 am RueiKe wrote: Thanks Yuv for your very detailed response! happy to read

[hugin-ptx] Re: Declaring 2010.4.0 final and moving on

2010-12-26 Thread RueiKe
Hi Yuv, My attempt to use the latest build on a typical complex project indicates significant issues. I understand that my use case of 217 images is not typical, but I think it has always been a critical feature for hugin to be able to handle very large projects. I have gone back to 2009.4 with

[hugin-ptx] Re: ANN: Hugin-2010.4.0_rc1 released

2010-12-24 Thread RueiKe
I have tried this release and the beta 2 version on a current project and am having some problems. I originally started the project with the beta2 build. The first alignment was fine. I deleted some bad control points from the control point table. When I attempted the alignment again from the

[hugin-ptx] Re: ANN: Hugin-2010.4.0_rc1 released

2010-12-24 Thread RueiKe
I uploaded the pto file: http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/web/DR13_Rev1.pto?hl=en%05eeb80c98d0c9ce2 Regards, Rick -- 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

[hugin-ptx] Re: Release Candidate #3 of Windows installer for 200.4.0 available for test

2010-01-17 Thread RueiKe
blended and fused pano with no error but did give me a warning about enfuse options. We should probably make the differences in the options more available. I will post on the hugin users group on flickr for the users there. Here is the final image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rueike/4281126265

[hugin-ptx] Re: Release Candidate #3 of Windows installer for 200.4.0 available for test

2010-01-17 Thread RueiKe
, I noticed your flicker stream and found this photo.  Did you do this in Hugin?  How? http://www.flickr.com/photos/rueike/4256191182/in/photostream/ Dale Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:19:16 -0800 Subject: [hugin-ptx] Re: Release Candidate #3 of Windows installer for 200.4.0

[hugin-ptx] Re: 2009.04 windows installer available for test

2010-01-06 Thread RueiKe
I was able to download and install with no problems. The file size was 18.8MB. I still have not had time to really check it out yet though. Regards, Rick On Jan 6, 9:05 pm, Henk Tijdink h.tijd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Allard It seems tat the setup file is corrupted. Download is only 2.779

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-03 Thread RueiKe
Hi Ryan, I have run this test project with Allard's build of 2009.2 SVN4461 and had no issues with or without the GPU option. Both produced identical 450MB tif tiles. I used -m 3000 for enblend. Regards, Rick On Nov 3, 6:59 am, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Ryan, Re OoM:  My test run

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-02 Thread RueiKe
language packs installed because it still can't change the locale, but the binaries are now 3MB bigger compressed, so I'm pretty sure unicode is really there. Regards, Ryan On Nov 1, 5:34 am, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ryan, I have finished running the first test case

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-02 Thread RueiKe
:47 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ryan, Re i18n: I am downloading the new version now.  I am using Vista in English with the Traditional Chinese Language pack.  I don't any errors; it just ignores the setting.  I have tried spanish and it works fine.  I will post an update when I try

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-02 Thread RueiKe
. Regards, Rick On Nov 2, 7:20 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ryan, I just tried the latest build and Chinese Traditional now works!  I probably need to run through a full test case to make sure there are no unicode issues (early builds of 0.8.0 had some that were cleaned up before

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-02 Thread RueiKe
Hi Yuv, Yes, that is the option I used for the test case that gave the out of memory error. I think Ryan's comment was concerning if the error I observed was specific to his build. Regards, Rick On Nov 2, 9:24 pm, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: Hi Rick, RueiKe wrote: Re GPU

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-02 Thread RueiKe
the official win32 enblend/enfuse from Sourceforge and see what happens with a GPU stitch. Regards, Ryan On Nov 2, 2:37 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Yuv, Yes, that is the option I used for the test case that gave the out of memory error.  I think Ryan's comment was concerning

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-11-02 Thread RueiKe
is after making the final image with -m 1000, it gets an error when deleting the working files. I will try 2009.2 later tonight for the GPU issue... Regards, Rick On Nov 2, 11:11 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ryan, Re OoM:  I was not able to get enblend to work, even by setting -m

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-2009.4 win32 (cygming) build available - please test

2009-10-31 Thread RueiKe
except for an area the size and shape of the image anchored for position. The area was the same size as that component image, but it had other images blended incorrectly into it. Let me know if you need any other details, Regards, Rick On Nov 1, 9:22 am, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ryan

[hugin-ptx] Re: Windows 2009.2 installer package: please test

2009-10-27 Thread RueiKe
strings. I think Yuv made the changes that impact this in 2009.04. I just stitched an 8k by 8k stereographic projection with no problems. The build looks good to me. Let me know if there is anything else that I could check out. Regards, Rick On Oct 26, 10:02 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi

[hugin-ptx] Re: Windows 2009.2 installer package: please test

2009-10-26 Thread RueiKe
Hi Allard, I had limited time this evening for testing, but I hope run through more tomorrow. So far it looks good! Platform: Vista 64bit, using English interface for Hugin, Hugin installed over 0.8.0. Project: 155 image 360x180 with 5 shot 1EV step brackets aligned with ~17k alignment

[hugin-ptx] Re: *IMPORTANT* Credits

2009-10-26 Thread RueiKe
Hi Yuv, One correction - I only provided original and updates to the Traditional Chinese Translation, not the Simplified. Regards, Rick On Oct 26, 9:40 pm, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: Hi all this community has been growing nicely for the past three years. I felt that the credits given

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

2009-09-27 Thread RueiKe
, 2009 at 9:20 PM, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Daniel, I just tried Live View on the D3.  No impact on the mirror lock up. Too bad.  At high speed, it can induce significant camera shake. Rick I can confirm that the 1ds3 brackets up to 7 shots, from 1/3 to up to 3 stops distance

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

2009-09-26 Thread RueiKe
be a factor for me would be the ability to lock up the mirror for an entire bracket series. Is it really necessary to meter between brackets, especially in manual mode? Is there some other technical limitation for this? Rick On Sep 27, 4:26 am, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: Hi Rick, RueiKe

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

2009-09-26 Thread RueiKe
Hi Daniel, I just tried Live View on the D3. No impact on the mirror lock up. Too bad. At high speed, it can induce significant camera shake. Rick On Sep 27, 6:46 am, dmg d...@uvic.ca wrote: Definitely disappointing that camera manufacturers still have not caught on to increased dynamic

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

2009-09-25 Thread RueiKe
What type of bracketing capabilities do the A850D and the 7D have? I heard that the Canons have only a max of 3 steps, but maybe this is only consumer level. The Nikons support 3, 5, 7, and 9 steps at a max increment of 1EV, while I heard that Pentax supports 2EV increments, but only 3 steps.

[hugin-ptx] Re: Control point generator incantations

2009-09-14 Thread RueiKe
specified. Regards, Rick On Sep 14, 8:44 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: On Sat 12-Sep-2009 at 07:38 -0700, RueiKe wrote: Not sure if I found a bug or if I am doing something wrong.  I am using SVN4352 of 2009.2.  I attempted to use the default arguments for autopano-SIFT-C, and I

[hugin-ptx] Re: Control point generator incantations

2009-09-12 Thread RueiKe
Hi Bruno, Not sure if I found a bug or if I am doing something wrong. I am using SVN4352 of 2009.2. I attempted to use the default arguments for autopano-SIFT-C, and I found that it indicates conversion to a stereographic projection in the control point generation window, even though an

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin translators needed! (was:Hugin-2009.2.0-beta2)

2009-09-06 Thread RueiKe
Hi Bruno, I found most of the fuzzy translations also need work. I plan to finish the Traditional Chinese translation tomorrow. Regards, Rick On Sep 6, 5:40 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: On Sat 05-Sep-2009 at 21:05 -0400, Yuval Levy wrote: Also the translation for the release

[hugin-ptx] Exposure Bracket Control Points

2009-09-03 Thread RueiKe
I am looking for ways to simplify some of my more complex projects which could be 217 images connected by 10,000 control points. In these cases I am doing 7 shot brackets for 31 images for full 360 x 180 degree pano. Seems like control points would be greatly simplified if I could just get

[hugin-ptx] Re: Exposure Bracket Control Points

2009-09-03 Thread RueiKe
and adjusting control points to get the rim in this pano to be sharp. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rueike/3780733501/ Using the 'g' approach, I reduced the mean error from 0.5 pixels to 0.1 pixels. Viewing at 200%, most of the rim had improved, but there were a few locations where setting points manually

[hugin-ptx] Re: Hugin 2009.2 release cycle

2009-08-26 Thread RueiKe
Bruno, I am working on the Traditional Chinese translation updates. Should be able to complete by the middle of next week. Regards, Rick On Aug 26, 9:29 pm, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: On Tue 25-Aug-2009 at 00:04 -0400, Yuval Levy wrote: starting a new tradition, once a month

[hugin-ptx] Control Point Error

2009-08-20 Thread RueiKe
I have found in the past sporadic control points that show very large errors, but when reviewed look normal. I have included a screen capture a href=http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/web/ Hugin_Error_20aug09.jpg?hl=en%05eeb80c98d0c9ce2here/a I am using SVN4005 64bit Vista build.

[hugin-ptx] Re: Control Point Error

2009-08-20 Thread RueiKe
optimizing more would just pop up. Maybe the issue was the result of many real bad alignment points during the original alignment. Regards, Rick On Aug 20, 10:19 pm, Gerry Patterson thedeepvo...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:43 AM, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: I have found

[hugin-ptx] Re: Control Point Error

2009-08-20 Thread RueiKe
On Aug 21, 2:30 am, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: On Thu 20-Aug-2009 at 08:05 -0700, RueiKe wrote: I uploaded the pto file: http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/web/KL5_Rev1.pto?hl=en%05eeb... The problem is only with four photos 80,81,82,83 (this is a big project).  Basically

[hugin-ptx] Re: test version of official installers for Hugin 0.8 on Windows

2009-07-29 Thread RueiKe
:32 pm, allard ka...@physics.leidenuniv.nl wrote: Rick, are those language problems windows-specific, or is it a more general thing? Apart from that, no complaints yet it seems. How long should we wait to release this? Allard On Jul 28, 8:37 am, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: I had

[hugin-ptx] Re: test version of official installers for Hugin 0.8 on Windows

2009-07-28 Thread RueiKe
, 10:50 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: I just installed the complete version with no issues.  I only had time for some quick testing before I call it a day so I just loaded a recent project (93 8bit tiffs with 10,707 control points).  It loaded fine, optimize with no problems, quick preview

[hugin-ptx] Re: test version of official installers for Hugin 0.8 on Windows

2009-07-27 Thread RueiKe
I just installed the complete version with no issues. I only had time for some quick testing before I call it a day so I just loaded a recent project (93 8bit tiffs with 10,707 control points). It loaded fine, optimize with no problems, quick preview has no issues, stitched a small pano out of

[hugin-ptx] Re: Windows Users: please test

2009-07-26 Thread RueiKe
I am running Ryan's 64bit build of 4005 with no problems at all. Regards, Rick On Jul 24, 9:16 am, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=550441aid=2824416;... can a few windows users confirm the above report that the

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin installer for Windows Vista SVN 3975

2009-07-07 Thread RueiKe
I have spent a few days with Ryan's 64bit build of hugin, and I think wow! is the best way to summarize the experience so far. Here are a few observations: I set the memory usage for enfuse and enblend to 7GB. Both went upto the limit while stitching a large project with no issues. I also

[hugin-ptx] Re: Release rc4 as 'final'?

2009-07-06 Thread RueiKe
Hi Bruno, All of the issues I was having were resolved by reducing the image cache size. It looks good to me! Regards, Rick On Jul 7, 6:17 am, Bruno Postle br...@postle.net wrote: Hi all, my mail has been down for a few days, so I'm not completely   up-to-date. Can anyone think of a

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-0.8.0_rc4 released

2009-07-03 Thread RueiKe
Vista build? I seem to be pushing too many limits with the 32bit version! Regards, Rick On Jul 1, 8:15 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: I have just loaded SVN3975 and found that it still has the same issues.  I tried a couple other things to more fully document the issue. 1) If I open my

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-0.8.0_rc4 released

2009-07-01 Thread RueiKe
the same file, and then choose Optimize Everything from the optimizer tab, it completes optimization with no error. If I then optimze low dynamic range in the exposure tab, I get and unhandled exception error. Hope this helps. Rick On Jun 29, 6:55 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Here

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin installer for Windows Vista SVN 3975

2009-07-01 Thread RueiKe
For Windows Vista, there is an option under System Properties - Performance Options to change the settings of DEP. On my system, it was set to be enable for essential Windows programs only. When I change it to be active for all programs, I sitll don't see it raising any DEP error for hugin. I

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-0.8.0_rc4 released

2009-06-29 Thread RueiKe
large a JPEG version of a project is. Regards, Rick On Jun 29, 5:41 pm, Yuval Levy goo...@levy.ch wrote: Hi Rick, RueiKe wrote: I have just loaded SVN3966 and found that it still crashes during Align.  I am testing with a new project that I have just completed with no issues using SVN3811

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-0.8.0_rc4 released

2009-06-29 Thread RueiKe
the assistant tab, during the Loading images... stage. Loading Images happens pretty late in the Align sequence of events. Also, to be more accurate in my previous post, almost all of the panos with the error have been 360x180, but the 76 image pano was not. Regards, Rick On Jun 29, 6:12 pm, RueiKe ruei

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-06-28 Thread RueiKe
I am still using SVN3811 due to align crash issues, so maybe this image loading problem has been fixed in later builds, but this is something I have just discovered. I am working with a large project that includes 125 images which includes 5 shot brackets. The project aligned with no problem

[hugin-ptx] Re: hugin-0.8.0_rc4 released

2009-06-17 Thread RueiKe
Hi Bruno, I am not sure of the status of the large project Align crash issue, but I have tried SVN3943 and found that it still crashes for my large projects. Same with 3929 and 3906. I am currently using SVN3884 for these projects with no problems. Let me know if it would be useful for me to

[hugin-ptx] Re: Interface consistency

2009-06-14 Thread RueiKe
I had also struggled with the Traditional Chinese translation for the stitcher tab and used the approach of better describing them in English when consulting others for the Chinese equivalent. I agree that the use of simpler more direct phrases here would be an improvement. Regards, Rick On

[hugin-ptx] Re: error using autopano

2009-06-08 Thread RueiKe
I have encountered this message before. I found it occurred when I had many images selected for adding control points. it goes through the entire process of finding key points and in the very end, says it can not execute command. For my situation, it was related to a Windows limitation to the

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-06-07 Thread RueiKe
a single image selected to prevent it from loading images... I have not been able to access a RC3 installer yet, so I won't be able to try the latest until next weekend. Regards, Rick On Jun 5, 6:57 pm, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Yuv, I have stitched some of my largest projects

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-06-05 Thread RueiKe
Hi Yuv, I have stitched some of my largest projects with SVN3811. I have just re-verified that there are no issues loading and aligning large projects with this build. Another major difference is that SVN3811 opens the old preview by default. To see if Quick Preview was a factor, I closed the

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-06-04 Thread RueiKe
Quick set of tests before dinner: 4 image pano - No Crash 76 image pano - Crash as before 11 image pano - No Crash 5 image pano - No Crash 18 image pano - Crash while opening pto file (tried twice) I will collect more details this evening. Rick On Jun 4, 10:31 am, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-06-04 Thread RueiKe
, - Gerry On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote: ok, I found that the 18 image pano above that crashes on open is due to a corrupt pto file.  When I open it with 0.7.0, it opens with no errors, but has no photos.  In wordpad, there is no text.  I had another version

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-06-03 Thread RueiKe
Yes, I am using Vista. I duplicated this issue in Traditional Chinese and English, just to be sure it was not a wide character issue. I loaded a project file from a project I previoulsy complete, 94 images enfused blended pano. Then press align button. After the Levelling panorama step, it

[hugin-ptx] Re: german translation of tips

2009-06-02 Thread RueiKe
His latest weekly build is at: http://hugin.huikeshoven.org/ On Jun 2, 7:09 pm, finbref.2006 finbref.2...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 1, 3:53 am, RueiKe ruei...@yahoo.com wrote:  You might want to look for the latest build from Ad, as there have been several posted since 3811

[hugin-ptx] Re: Windows testers please

2009-05-27 Thread RueiKe
I have just finished going through my full workflow with SVN3884 in Traditional Chinese with no problems. The 2 crashes reported earlier with align and fine tune all control points are fixed. In this test, I have also tried optimize from the edit menu, Celeste, Optimize All from the Optimizer

[hugin-ptx] Re: OpenGL slow because of reloading

2009-05-27 Thread RueiKe
My experience with this problem on Windows Vista is that it is bad enough to degrade the overalll user expereince from 0.7.0. If it does get released without fixing it, then there should be an option to use the old preview as a default, so that the problem can be avoided. Rick On May 28, 6:12 

[hugin-ptx] Re: new hugin installer for Windows Vista/XP

2009-05-20 Thread RueiKe
Thanks for sharing the weekly Windows builds! It has been very useful. One minor issue I am having is a TIFF library warning. Here are the first few lines: 20:18:44: tiff module: TIFFReadDirectory 20:18:44: TIFF library warning. I mentioned it to Bruno, and he suggested it may be an installer