[ptx] autopano-sift related problems & ready for hugin release

[Pablo d'Angelo]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004, Sebastian Nowozin wrote:

> Hi everone,
> 
> just to let you know, I read all of the emails and bug reports about 
> autopano-sift, I just do not have time currently to fix them until next 
> week.  I will look into every issue reported here and to me and 
> hopefully make it integrate well with the upcoming hugin release.
> 
>  For this, Pablo, I would like to know if it would be better to have 
> all the filenames passed on command line or if it would be better to 
> read them from a file or stdin or the like (to get around the 
> too-many-filenames-in-commandline issue on Windows)?

That would probably be very useful. But I think it should be optional, so
that the old way of dragging images onto the script also works. A bit like
the -T option of tar.

I think these option would be useful for both the shellscript, as well as
for the GUI's, because some people might like to use the GUI's where its
easier to adjust some stuff etc.
If the gui would provide the same command line options as the script, it
could be use by simply choosing autopanog.exe instead of the shell script.

At the moment, hugin doesn't read back the images positions, so the
automatic placement done by autopano-sift wouldn't be used, but I can change
that.

I was also thinking if autopano could understand a subset of the PT script
files, it could be run on script files, that include a bit more information
(lens projection type, hfov). This might be useful for other stages, maybe a
special fisheye RANSAC or something like that. Ofcause we could also use a
cleaner XML based format for the files.

ciao
  Pablo