Is it advisable to delete all Components, when hoping that more Alignment run(s) will improve matters? I understood that only the small-image-count Components should be deleted. Tho I understand that Ellison is getting full registration of all cameras every time, and he’s trying to get a completely virgin new attempt at the single Component. I wonder, in that case, whether cache should be cleared as well, so no remnant of old calcs.
"1° is certainly much too close. More like 10-15° and at different levels (from above and the side).
I am only planning to capture to about 10°, though; I just need the top portion of the subject."
This must be part of the randomness? AFAIK all images showing less than 10o difference in view direction of any given object should be treated as harmful, confusing near-duplicates and eliminated (and not greater than 30o).
Also, effective panoramas - photos taken from near-enough the same camera position - are useless.
Ellison, do I understand that your entire range of camera movement is only10o, with numerous positions in between?
Is it advisable to delete all Components, when hoping that more Alignment run(s) will improve matters?
I think so. I read before here in the community that it somehow stores the data from the previous calculations, which I think is true; when I was aligning images using a new set images, the images do not align initially, but with a few trials the software was capable of alignment.
Ellison, do I understand that your entire range of camera movement is only10o, with numerous positions in between?
Yes, I have data taken at 1°, 2°, and so on.
AFAIK that’s much too close-angle - such shots confuse each other as the trigonometry creates exponentially-increasing liability to depth error. Imagine a tiny base line then lines back from its endpoints, converging at 1o - where will they cross? the slightest difference in angle or length of base line makes a huge difference to the depth at which they cross. I understand that 10o is the minimum safe convergence angle (and 30o is the widest that RC handles, for different reason).
Pics which show the same object viewed at angles less than 10o apart should be eliminated - am I right, team?
That’s OK, because you should be shooting your fluffball from all points on a hemisphere, i.e. from side, top, bottom, not just dead-ahead. RC depends on getting a range of different-angle shots of every feature.