The first improvement concerns icc color profiles: Hugin has already copied the icc profile into the output file when stitching panoramas. Now also the display in the GUIs takes the icc profile into account. Celeste_standalone and cpfind read now also the icc profile and use it during its processings.
Beside the known output options Hugin now includes a user defined output sequence. With this option the user can create more flexible variants for the output. As an example a zero-noise output sequence is delivered with Hugin 2016.0.
Some buttons in the Hugin GUI now have a context menu for easier access to some function:
Show all in the fast preview window to allow better interaction with stacked projects.
Celeste button in the cp tab (panorama editor): the button can now be used to create control points or to clean control points with celeste or statistical methods.
The identify tool in the fast preview window now also shows the image numbers on top of the images. (This can be suppressed by pressing the alt button).
Problems found with existing digests:
Package fotoxx distfile fotoxx-14.03.1.tar.gz
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Package ploticus-examples distfile ploticus-2.00/plnode200.tar.gz
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Problems found locating distfiles:
Package AfterShotPro: missing distfile AfterShotPro-1.1.0.30/AfterShotPro_i386.deb
Package pgraf: missing distfile pgraf-20010131.tar.gz
Package qvplay: missing distfile qvplay-0.95.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Hugin 2015.0 has a number of new features. Most of the changes are under the hood to improve stability, allow easier maintenance and easier addition of new features.
The makefile based stitching engine has been replaced with direct calls to the underlying programs. This should reduce the overhead of calling the same program too often and so speed up the whole process. Hopefully this also allows the usage of more unusual characters in the filename. Instead of pto2mk and make we now have hugin_executor which can also be used for running the assistant from the command line.
Hugin now has it's own blender, verdandi, based on a watershed algorithm, which has been included in 'nona'. verdandi can be chosen as the blender by choosing "builtin" in the stitcher tab, and can also be set in the Preferences. verdandi can also be called as a command line tool.
The lensfun library has been removed as it did not fulfill our expectations. It has been replaced with our own camera and lens database which uses a data mining approach and operates automatically without user intervention. Geometric distortion and vignetting data have to be loaded manually.
The fast preview window has a new tool to add or remove control points to selected areas in the output projection.
Automatic exposure stack detection is now applied when loading images, and an option has been added to unlink image position when adding stacks.
The fine-tune and auto-estimate functions in the control point tab have been made projection aware. It should now work also with images with different fov or different projections. The fine-tune feature has had a significant speed up when Hugin is compiled with the libfftw3 library (optional).
PTBatcherGUI has more choice for the end of the process: depending on the operating system the PTBatcherGUI can be closed, the computer can be shut down or send to the hibernate mode.
PTBatcherGUI now shows the thumbnails when searching for images in directories.
Many of the underlying tools in hugin are now able to use available cpu cores.
vigra (which is 1.8.0) to fix build with recent libpng.
I'm not sure if the resolution handling changes (search for "254") are
desirable or not. if something goes wrong, try reverting that.
The package should probably be changed to use pkgsrc vigra, but I
don't want to do that right now.
* Built-in Control Points Generator
* Improved Unattended Operation
* Improved Interaction and Functionality
* Improved Reporting of Stitching and System Information
* New Command-Line Tools
* Refactored Makefile Library
* Libraries and Build Improvements
* Migration to Launchpad
* New Visuals
* Hugin main window can also be viewed full-screen.
* Autocrop
* Deghosting
* The default size of the image cache has increased in line with modern
computers.
* The About dialog has been extended to show a full list of Hugin contributors.
* Other fixes for minor bugs and annoyances.
The last release in July 2009 introduced several major new features, but took
a long time to arrive. This release follows quickly with the intention of
tracking development better with more frequent releases, even so we still have
some great new features and smaller improvements:
* Hardware accelerated stitching
* Control point creator presets
* Exposure layer fusion
* Visual control points
* EXIF metadata display
Like other GUI front-ends, hugin provides an easy-to-use unified point-and-click
interface to a whole range of other command-line tools including:
* autopano-sift, autopano-sift-C, panomatic or autopano for automatic creation
of control points.
* nona for remapping input images and rendering output images.
* enblend and enfuse for seamless blending of output images.
The Hugin project's mission is not only to provide a powerful GUI, but also to
provide opensource replacements for the small number of closed source components
of Panorama tools, especially PTStitcher. A PTStitcher replacement, called nona
has been developed, supporting its most important features.
Among the many flexible Hugin workflow options, it is possible to correct
exposure, Vignetting and White balance between photos; generate HDR or exposure
blended output from bracketed photos; or use 16bit and HDR input data natively.
