<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">hello paul<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 09.08.2006, at 04:00, Paul Lundgren wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I wonder if I'm missing something. I am a Mac user but NOT a programer. Most of the posts here seem to be of the compiling type. I was able to follow the instructions in the ReadMe to use the script to "install" Enblend.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have no idea what Autopano-sift is, what it does or how to use it. The script warns against installing it - so I didn't.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>autopano-sift is a program for automatic keypoint generation. for me it makes the whole panorama generation a very simple process:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1: think a bit when taking the photos (e.g large overlap)</DIV><DIV>2: load images into hugin</DIV><DIV>3: let autopano-sift generate the keypoints</DIV><DIV>4: optimize</DIV><DIV>5: correct some points (most of the time not necessary!)</DIV><DIV>6: render the image</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>unfortunately the integration of autopano-sift is broken in hugin 0.6 which makes the generation of panoramas much more timeconsuming :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>hope that helps a bit.</DIV><DIV>habi</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>ps: if you haven't seen it, here's the link to autopano-sift: <A href="http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/">http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/</A></DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have not used Hugin 0.6 as yet although I did have crashing problems with 0.5. It seems to have possibilities but I was unable to use it satisfactorily. I used Photoshop manually instead – which takes a very long time.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I feel a little clueless here but is there something else beside just using the application that I should be doing?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- Paul</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Ippei UKAI wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Can I try summarising a bit about the installation issues on OSX?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>david haberthuer | rodtmattstr. 73 | 3014 bern | +41 76 330 17 96 | +41 31 332 56 07 | habi.gna.ch</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>