[Fwd: Re: question on panotools geometry]
I'm just forwarding a discussion between me, Daniel, Chris and Dev to
the panotools-devel list, as it might be interesting for other parties, too.
Pablo

Hi all,
Chris Gat wrote:
> Just as Daniel mentioned, I effectively divided SetInvMake and SetMake
> functions into 2 modes, a planar and spherical. The planar mode will
> scale, translate, and tilt (based on Dev's code) the images to align.
> Spherical mode operates as it did before I started working on the
> code. The FOV of the input images isn't a factor when building the
> size of the panorama, but the tilt functions are reliant on these FOVs
> for proper tilting. In general, I don't think FOV should be a factor
> in mosaic type panoramas, since the concept becomes lost once you
> start taking photos of the same plane at varying angles and distances.
> It makes calculating the resultant panorama size very difficult. My
> implementation forces the user to specify a size of the output
> panorama that will contain the resultant panorama. If is not
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