YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAHH!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Krause" <erik.krause@...>
To: <PanoToolsNG@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:11 PM
Subject: [PanoToolsNG] A christmas present


> Hello,
>
> Andrew Mihal (developer of enblend) and the hugin development team
> around Pablo d'Angelo have a christmas present for the panorama
> community: enfuse
>
> The program uses the multi resolution spline blending technique known
> from enblend to fusion (hence the name) a stack of exposure bracketed
> images - not to HDR but to a exposure blended LDR result.
>
> I tested it on some cases and it yielded results wich are the closest
> to perfect I ever saw. Even the 17 EV lamp example from my page
> http://www.erik-krause.de/blending which no recent tonemapper was
> able to process satisfactorily looks really great:
> http://www.erik-krause.de/lamp_enfuse.jpg
>
> And the best is: this runs fully automatic, without need to tweak a
> load of settings. The syntax is similar to enblend, hence it might be
> possible to use one of the enblend GUIs:
> http://wiki.panotools.org/Enblend_Front_End or even PTGui if you
> specify enfuse instead of enblend or smartblend in the Options
> -> Plugins menu (don't forget to set it back, since enfuse is *no*
> panorama blender).
>
> Enfuse is part of the enblend 3.1 pre release. Hence be warned: There
> still might be bugs - this is for testing only. Please read the
> README and the NEWS file from the ZIP before. Please report any bugs
> or oddities here or better on the hugin-ptx list at
> http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
>
> Enblend 3.1 reports are welcome, too!
>
> Enfuse f.e. shuts down if it is called with wrong parameters. Here is
> a list (output of enfuse if called without parameters):
>
> Usage: enfuse [options] -o OUTPUT INPUTS
>
> Common options:
> -h Print this help message
> -l number Number of levels to use (1 to 29)
> -o filename Write output to file
> -v Verbose
> -w Blend across -180/+180 boundary
> --compression=COMP Set compression of the output image.
> Valid values for compression are:
> For TIFF files: LZW, DEFLATE
> For JPEG files: 0-100
>
> Extended options:
> -b kilobytes Image cache block size (default=2MiB)
> -c Use CIECAM02 to blend colors
> -g Associated alpha hack for Gimp (ver. < 2) and
> Cinepaint
> -f WIDTHxHEIGHT+x0+y0 Manually set the size and position of the
> output image.
> Useful for cropped and shifted input TIFF
> images, such as those produced by Nona.
>
> -m megabytes Use this much memory before going to disk
> (default=1GiB)
>
> Fusion options:
> --wExposure Weight given to well-exposed pixels.
> --wContrast Weight given to high-contrast pixels
> (unimplemented).
> --wSaturation Weight given to highly-saturated pixels
> (unimplemented).
>
> The Fusion options parameters have no effect so far since only
> --wExposure is implemented and hence default. -c works only if the
> source images contain a color profile.
>
> Ok, did you read all? Then for the link (currently only Windows
> version):
>
> http://hugin.panotools.org/testing/enblend/enblend-3.1_win32_pre2.zip
>
> best regards and merry christmas.
>
> --
> Erik Krause
> Offenburger Str. 33
> 79108 Freiburg
>
>