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authorJohannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>2008-07-06 16:56:02 +0200
committerJohannes Hofmann <Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de>2008-07-06 16:56:02 +0200
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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Requirements
Installation
------------
-* Unpack the tar file and run `./configure; make; make install`
+Unpack the tar file and run `./configure; make; make install`
Running
-------
@@ -132,38 +132,6 @@ taken into account according to the approximation described by Tom Chester in:
under the assumption of a temperature change of 6.5°C per 1000m and a
temperature T0 at view point level of 10°C.
-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.
-You can use the -b switch to enable bicubic interpolation, which
-gives smoother results but is a bit slower.
-
-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!
-
Exif Data
---------
gipfel tries to get useful information from the exif data of the
@@ -195,6 +163,38 @@ Independent of the distortion profiles one can also modify the
distortion parameters per image.
Distortion correction is also used when stitching panorama images.
+Stitching Panorama Images
+-------------------------
+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 directory <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.
+You can use the -b switch to enable bicubic interpolation, which
+gives smoother results but is a bit slower.
+
+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
---------------
* Obviously gipfel can only be as good as its input data. If there is no