PTOBIND(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 PTOBIND 💖

okay bestie, this is ptobind from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's literally here to join the ends of linked photos in a Hugin project. slay. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ptobind [options] --output output.pto input.pto

 Options:
  -m | --makefile file  Output Makefile
  -o | --output file    Output project
  -h | --help           Outputs help documentation.

like, that's the whole vibe. input on the right, output on the left, options in the middle. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so ptobind is a wrapper around a bunch of various tools that generates control points. the output? either a .pto project or a Makefile that will create that .pto project. choose your fighter. 🦋

ngl this is a specialist tool, and it comes with assumptions, okay? it assumes your project is already connected into one or more chains of control points. it doesn't build the chains, bestie, it just vibes with the ones you already have.

here's the tea ☕ — the first and last photos from each of these chains get selected for feature matching. so:

  • if there's a single chain, this tool will try and join it into a loop 🔁
  • if there are two chains, they get fitted together side-by-side by trying to join the ends to each other
  • and any loops will also be joined

main character energy tbh.

this tool is intended to use the output and intermediate .key files created by ptochain. so like, ptochain first, then ptobind. it's giving pipeline. ✨

now, about the Makefile situation:

  • if the --makefile option is given, rules for generating the project are written to a Makefile
  • if --makefile isn't set, then those rules will be executed immediately
👀 heads up: no Makefile means it just goes. like, right then. so know what you're asking for.

and the control point generator parameters? those get set via Option lines in the input project, fr fr:

#hugin_cpgenSize 1500
#hugin_cpgenNumber 25
#hugin_cpgenRansac true
#hugin_cpgenRefine false

look at those. iconic. 🌈

👑 LICENSE 👑

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

periodt. 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go look, iykyk. 💖

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Bruno Postle - December 2009.

okay so that's the whole page!! 💖✨ this was PTOBIND(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's running on perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25. no cap, that's the version and the date, bestie. go bind some ends 🫶🌸

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