On April 25, 2024 10:44:09 PM HST, 'kfj' via hugin and other free panoramic
software <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Friday, April 26, 2024 at 10:16:56 AM UTC+2 GnomeNomad wrote:
>
> Thanks, but I think the on-screen view should show the output crop, the way
> Hugin does without having to load the stitched image manually.
>
> Well, at times you just don't get what you want ;-)
>
> If you look at what hugin shows you when you choose the cropping rectangle,
> you also see the parts of the image set which, later on, are cut off when
> the cropping happens. The only thing which lux does differently is that it
> does not mark these areas by making them a bit darker, and lux does not
> show the cropping rectangle as a white rectangle. lux also does not offer
> any interface to modify the cropping window. I feel that it's better for a
> program which is primarily an image *viewer* to show users all the
> available content and let them choose which part of the content they wish
> to look at and, potentially, save as a snapshot (pressing 'E'). Honouring
> the cropping rectangle in the p-line is to allow for stitching to the PTO
> file's specs (press Shift+E), so that lux can function as a drop-in
> replacement for stitching - nice to have, but more of a side product: I
> show the stitched view, so I might as well offer stitching services beyond
> capturing what's in the current display. That's how 'source-like snapshots'
> and the processing of the p-line came to be.
> One might consider adding code to lux to show all kinds of additional
> information - the cropping rectangle in the PTO's p-line is one such thing,
> then masks, horizon guideline etc.. I have thought about adding an optional
> vector layer for such data, but I haven't implemented anything along those
> lines yet, even though I find the idea attractive. Please keep in mind that
> I'm not trying to provide some sort of hugin clone. lux is a separate
> program and uses it's own logic, even though it can do things like
> understand PTO format to an extent, which I think is no mean feat. I think
> there aren't many image viewers out there which can do that at all.
I agree, lux is an achievement. It's the only image viewer besides Hugin that
can view PTO files.
For lux to function fully as a *viewer* for PTO files, I think it needs to
apply the PTO file's crop settings. It can have an option to use (or not use)
the crop settings.
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