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@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@ picture manually. 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 =============== @@ -180,4 +213,3 @@ results of gipfel. Johannes Hofmann (Johannes.Hofmann@gmx.de) -Nov 14, 2005 |