[ptx] nona and PTstitcher

[manouchk]

Le Lundi 12 Décembre 2005 20:48, JD Smith a écrit :
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Daniel M. German wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > does anybody know why Helmut never released the source code for
> > PTstitcher? This is particularly problematic for those of us running
> > OS X (the current executable is for 0S 9, there is no native version
> > of it for OS X).
> >
> > Also, I have noticed that there are some features of PTstitcher that
> > are not available in none (like PSD support). Is there a location
> > where I can read a description of these differences?
> >
> > Finally, given that PTstitcher is mainly based on libpano12, wouldn't
> > it be easy to reproduce the functionality of PTstitcher, perhaps by
> > analyzing libpano12 and/or potentially decompiling its linux source
> > code? Has anybody tried something like this?
>
> It would seem a few people including Jim Watters have been working on
> this recently... see the PanoTools list.
>
> PTStitcher has color histogram matching, but no one really uses that
> now that Enblend and the rest are available.  As such, there's really
> no reason to stick with PTStitcher now that nona is here (other than
> unfamiliarity).  Nona is faster and simpler, and can stitch  many
> types of image encodings (16-bit, etc.).  It does not produce PSD
> output, but its multi-layered TIFF should be equivalent.  I guess
> Gimp 2.x can read (and write?) these multi-layered TIFFs with masks.
> Does anyone know if enblend can read them as well, or will it just
> take multiple TIFF files with encoded offsets?

enblend use to handle multiple tiff but not after the 1.3 to 2.0 transition. 
It works well with multiple tiff output from hugin.

> JD