memory hogging...

[Pablo d'Angelo]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003, Peter Suetterlin wrote:

> Ed Halley wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to perfect my first 18-image cylindrical (untrimmed comes to
> > more than 21000 x 3000 pixels).  However, I only have 512MB to work
> > with.  I used to have 1GB but a stick of memory went bad.  :/
> 
> :-/  
> I know those problems, working with full spherical panos of 50
> and more images...

have you created all the images on your site with hugin? You've got some
nice ones there.

> > We also may have an optional mode where the control points tab only uses
> > 1/2 scale images unless you (1) request full images with a toggle, or
> > (2) click the mouse or pan the image in either pane.
> 
> Not sure if this is a good idea, setting the points, and especially
> the auto picker *should* imho work an the full resolution images.
> 
> How about storing the images in memory as jpegs and only uncompress
> them when they are loaded into the control point picker?

Hmm, that could work, but I'm not sure how much work it is. Hopefully the os
also has a disk cache that might contain some of the purged images.

ciao
  Pablo
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