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Meik Frischke wrote: |
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> Hi Dale, |
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> Hugin has a USE-flag for SIFT which pulls autopano-sift-C as a |
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> dependency: sift? ( media-gfx/autopano-sift-C ). The SIFT algorithm |
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> used to be patented [1] which could be a possible reason why the |
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> dependency was not enabled by default, though you might have to ask |
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> the maintainer for that. The patent is expired as of this year, so |
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> there is probably little reason to not enable the USE flag for you. |
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> "autopano-noop" is an obsolete wrapper [2] for autopano-sift-C which |
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> might be an artifact from an earlier hugin version upgrade. |
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> Anyway, good that you got it to work. |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Meik |
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> [1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6711293B1/en |
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> [2] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/autopano-noop.1.html |
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I already got it working. I was posting about how to get it to work. |
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Hopefully, if someone googles it, they will find this thread and be able |
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to follow how to set it up and it work. |
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Since I installed this so long ago, it likely held the old defaults over |
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from the past. It may work on new installs. Oh, I already had the sift |
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USE flag enabled. Still, the defaults didn't work. |
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Interesting to know some history about this tho. May explain why it was |
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the way it was. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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