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Thanks to everyone responsible for this release!
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Hugin-2010.2.0 release notes
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Translated versions of these notes can be found here:
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http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/
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Hugin is a panorama stitcher and more.
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Changes since 2010.0.0
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This is our second release in 2010. It delivers some major new
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features, completes integration of projects from the 2009 Google
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Summer of Code, and includes many general improvements.
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The Hugin Fast Preview window visualises your panorama and lets you
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change the project by dragging and clicking. This release introduces
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an extra mode for this preview that shows the entire project as a
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diagram with colour-coded lines connecting each of the photographs.
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Now with a glance you can see where the project is ok and where
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there are problems if it isn't quite right. Just click on any
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connection and Hugin jumps to the Control Points tab to edit that
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Hugin uses multiresolution seam blending to join photos invisibly by
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smoothing colours and brightness. Controlling the location of this
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seam is now much easier with the new Mask tab, which instead of
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requiring you to place the seam itself, lets you just indicate the
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areas of photos that you do and don't want to be part of the
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finished panorama - The seam itself then gets placed intelligently
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using the remaining overlapping areas.
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Masks can be saved and reused in new projects, so objects that
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appear again and again like tripod heads can be easily excluded.
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For a stitched panorama you shoot photos in different directions but
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from a single location, Hugin will happily assemble these into a
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complete scene. Now Hugin has an alternative mosaic mode — You can
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take photos of a planar object such as a floor, painting, or mural
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from any position, direction or angle, and Hugin will stitch them
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seamlessly just as it does with a normal panorama.
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Hugin allows you to shoot exposure bracketed photos and panoramas,
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it will automatically combine them with exposure fusion or HDR
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merging into a single image that has the best areas of each photo in
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the stack. Hugin uses the same alignment process as with panoramas
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so even hand-held bracketing works perfectly.
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Photographers who use quality tripods can now skip this alignment
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stage by telling Hugin that photos in a bracketed stack are linked
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and share the same view.
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Control point detector modes
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Hugin uses plugin tools called control point detectors to
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automatically match features between photos. Previous versions of
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Hugin relied on the detector entirely, but now Hugin can make
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intelligent detector choices based on knowledge of the panorama.
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So Hugin can now match the photos in a multi-row panorama more
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efficiently and with less error by breaking the job into separate
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tasks, panoramas consisting of bracketed stacks can be automatically
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identified and Hugin will switch to using appropriate matching
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Another new feature is that panoramas can be approximately aligned
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by dragging the photos around in the preview or using a template,
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the control point detector can then be asked to only check
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overlapping pairs of photos instead of all possible combinations of
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photos — This speeds things up and reduces the chances of false
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Hugin supports photos taken with a wide range of 'normal' and
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fisheye lenses, and can fine-tune for variation of distortion from
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these standard types. With this release support has been added for
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orthographic, stereographic and equisolid lenses.
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Migration to Mercurial
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Development of Hugin sourcecode has switched from Subversion to
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Mercurial to better support parallel development and to reduce
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dependency on Sourceforge infrastructure.
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Most of the translations have been updated for this release.
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This release has the usual bugfixes, adds minor features, and
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provides some more command-line tools for scripting panorama
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Control point generators
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Hugin doesn't yet ship with a 'Patent Free' control point generator.
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So you either need to pick control points manually - Not as
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difficult as it sounds - or install and configure one of the
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following control-point generators as 'plug-ins':
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* Autopano freeware version
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Upgrading from previous versions of Hugin should be seamless. If you
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do have problems with old settings, these can be reset in the
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Preferences by clicking 'Load defaults'.
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For users compiling from source: note that the minimum version of
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wxWidgets supported is now 2.7.0, libpano13 needs to be at least
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2.9.17, and that Hugin requires GLEW the OpenGL Extension Wrangler
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Library, freeglut the OpenGL utility toolkit, and libGLU the OpenGL
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Support for the legacy libpano12 library has been discontinued.
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See the README and INSTALL_cmake files for more information.
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Thanks to all the contributors to this release and members of the
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hugin-ptx mailing list, too many to mention here.
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Hugin can be found at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
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Hugin sourcecode can be downloaded from sourceforge:
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/
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SHA1SUM: f0676f28cd3fbebcf4086f55af7cf09566772899 hugin-2010.2.0.tar.gz
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This release is identical to 2010.2.0_rc2
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equivalent to hg branch 2010.2 -r 4431:d8ce0ba947cc
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