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authorJohannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>2006-08-09 22:20:43 +0200
committerJohannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>2006-08-09 22:20:43 +0200
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Requirements
============
-- gipfel works on UNIX-like system (e.g. Linux, *BSD and probably others).
-- You need fltk-1.1.x from www.fltk.org.
-- You need the ccmath library (http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccmath/).
+- fltk-1.1.x (http://www.fltk.org)
+- libtiff (http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/)
+- libjpeg (http://www.ijg.org/)
+- ccmath library (http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccmath/)
+- gipfel works on UNIX-like system (e.g. Linux, *BSD and probably others)
Installation
@@ -133,6 +135,37 @@ the Option->Show Hidden menu entry. Hidden objects and hidden GPS way points
are displayed in blue.
+Stitching
+=========
+
+If you have multiple images from the same viewpoint referenced with gipfel
+you can stitch them together to form a panorama image.
+For stitching the input images must all have been correctly referenced
+with gipfel and saved (see "Loading and Saving Images").
+You can then call gipfel -s <img1> <img2> ...
+to see the result in a window. Alternatively you can call
+gipfel -s -j <outimg> <img1> <img2> ...
+to save the result as a JPEG image to <outimg> or
+gipfel -s -t <outdir> <img1> <img2> ...
+to save the result as multiple TIFF images to <outdir>.
+Use the multiple TIFF option for blending the result with enblend
+(http://enblend.sourceforge.net/).
+The width and height of the result images can be adjusted with the
+-w and -h options.
+
+The nice thing about stitching is that gipfel uses the same code that
+it already had for positioning mountains on the pictures.
+gipfel simply scans all directions needed for the panorama and determines
+where these directions would end up on the various pictures. It can then
+record the corresponding color values from the input images.
+
+In contrast to other stitching programs, the input images don't need to
+overlap.
+
+If you want to open a stitched image in gipfel to locate the mountains
+on it, don't forget to choose Panoramic Projection!
+
+
Troubleshooting
===============
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Johannes Hofmann
(Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de)
-Nov 14, 2005