[ptx] thoughts for hugin UI, post 0.5

[Rob Park]

On 5/27/05, Sebastian Nowozin <nowozin at gmail.com> wrote:
> For most users it would be nicer to have some quality-profile, like
> "fast (for preview)", "fair" and "maximum quality (slow)" which takes
> care of those settings (and other related settings, for example in
> autopano-sift (whether to enable refinement, downscale resolution, etc.)
> and enblend (number of levels)).

This is making me giddy with excitement ;)

What if we took my idea, and extracted all the hugin internals into
external, standalone programs that took commandline switches and such.
Then we could easily make a simple frontend GUI that could easily
implement this "quality profiles" idea, and the profiles would store
settings for all enblend, autopano-sift, nona, all at once. So you
could say draft quality, and it would automatically choose to disable
refinement in autopano-sift, choose a smaller number of levels in
enblend, make the output to be scaled down a bit, use a faster/lower
quality interpolator in nona, etc. You could do that while working on
it, and then then when you're done, pick the "high quality" preset and
have it do the highest quality interpolator, maximum resolution, TIFF
output, lots of levels in enblend, etc etc etc. That'd be very, very
nice.

;)

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