[ptx] Re: [PanoTools] About the FOV compute

[Pablo d'Angelo]

Hi Marc,

> Hi !
> I am new on your forum, and I'm trying to understand
> how Hugin is done...
> I wonder how is computed the automatic FOV when you
> push "Calculate Field of View"...
> But the function Panorama::calcFOV() in Panorama.cpp
> is quite not clear ...
> 
> I don't understand how you proceed ... Is there any
> documentation about the automatic field of view
> compute ?

Not really.. It simply traces the borders of each image in a spherical
coordiante system and uses the bounding box as a measure for H/VFOV.

It's got some bug, which leads to a 180 deg VFOV sometime.. have to fix
that..

BTW. why are you interested in it?

ciao
  Pablo