[ptx] Finally tried Autopano... not as good as Hugin's copy of autopano_old

[Morten A. Steien]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:09:34 -0400, <ptx-bounces at email-lists.org> wrote:

> I finally tried the autopano program as published at
> http://autopano.kolor.com/ but found that it did not work as easily or
> nicely as the autopano_old which is included in the recent Hugin builds.
>
> I shot four easy one-row panoramas at a park, and gave the folder to
> autopano.  Instead of four subdirectories, it gave 11.  Most of the
> "panoramas" it found were just two shots.

You could try increase the the size of the feature search to f.x 800
ie: /size:800

> I prefer the old version's usage pattern:  I tell it what images apply,
> and what script it should write, and it should work hard to accept them
> all.

If your directory contains just one panorama you can use: /ransac:1

> I also don't want my images moved around into subdirectories; if the
> algorithm makes a mistake I have to go hunting for the files and move
> them back before retrying.

Use: /nomove

> These behaviors do not appear to be available by command-line switches
> in the newer version.

They all are. :-)
I also like to use /search:1 which gives better (but slower) pattern 
matching.

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Morten A. Steien