Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: have you heard about TOAST projection?

2010-12-25 Thread Yuval Levy
On December 21, 2010 10:40:21 pm Tom Sharpless wrote: > It never ceases to amaze me that up in Redmond they pay people good > money to do such work. it happens everywhere where money is too easy. > I keep suggesting that our primary stitching targets should include > the cube, since so many of

[hugin-ptx] Re: have you heard about TOAST projection?

2010-12-22 Thread kfj
On 22 Dez., 04:40, Tom Sharpless wrote: > > I keep suggesting that our primary stitching targets should include > the cube, since so many of our panos end up that way. It would be only > a little extra work to make an engine for that do the TOAST and Pierce > Quincuncial projections too. This mad

[hugin-ptx] Re: have you heard about TOAST projection?

2010-12-21 Thread Tom Sharpless
Once again, Microsoft takes a poor idea and runs with it. It never ceases to amaze me that up in Redmond they pay people good money to do such work. Not that I have anything against tiled projections. Printing dodecahedral panoramas seems quite popular, there are several programs for that. On t

[hugin-ptx] Re: have you heard about TOAST projection?

2010-12-17 Thread kfj
On 16 Dez., 15:50, Seb Perez-D wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 15:48, Sebastien Perez-Duarte > > wrote: > > A much better projection is the Peirce Quincuncial. It is also square, > > but is almost everywhere conformal. > > Sorry, I forgot the Wikipedia link! > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe