[ptx] suggestion: limiting parameters

[Pablo d'Angelo]

Didier Hérisson schrieb:
> Le Jeudi 16 Juin 2005 14:36, J. Schneider a écrit :
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>i would like to make a suggestion concerning optimization strategies. No
>>clue if this is easy or even possible to implement since I have only a
>>faint idea of programming.
>>It often happens to me that I have images of which I know, that they are
>>taken fairly exact but of course not mathematically exact.
>>So for example I would like to let hugin optimize for pitch and roll
>>values within certain limits, e.g. 1°. (The tripod column may have been
>>slightly out of the vertical). Or I have scanned framed slides of which
>>I know that they must have some  shift (d, e), but not more than 50px
>>and that the crop is slightly different, so I have to optimize v - but
>>the focal length can't differ more than 1mm.
>>You can imagine more scenarios like that.
>>Is it possible to make hugin stop iterating at a certain limit for a
>>given parameter?
> 
> 
> I totally agree that it would be nice to be able to set ranges for 
> parameters... I guess the pb is: can these ranges be send to PToptimizer?

No. this would require changes to pano12.dll and PTOptimizer. And I'm 
not sure how this could be implemented nicely. Ideally we would have to 
replace the current levenberg marquardt minimizer inside pano12.dll with 
one that can handle bounds.

ciao
   Pablo