Misc

v2 internal design

Framework

The idea is to entirely build Papywizard as a framework, where different parts are just services, so new features can be added by users, at least to prototype them. It is also better for upgrade only a few parts of the code.

Engines

The core of Papywizard will be build arround engines, which will be hard-coded. Main engines are:

• pano engines
  • mosaic engine
  • preset engine
• timelapse engine

Engines can use other engines (ex: a timelapse pano).

Plugins

Engines will uses some plugins to be able to achieve their purpose. These plugins will be splitted in categories:

• axis control - axis can be manual
• camera shutter triggering - through hardware, tethered
• hardware communication - transport and protocol
• timer/intervalometer - or is it timelapse?
• display - shooting area, text area, custom
• GPS
• data storage - file, database, server...
• analysis - picture control for automatic bracketing

A plugin should be able to :

• provide a service
• register itself in the framework according to its interface
• add GUI features (display, preferences...)
• be dynamically enabled/disabled
• check if dependent plugins are available

Services

Services are low-level features, like logging, persistence, data storage...

GUI

Shoot area

• method scan.getNext(index=None); index can be a list
• add col/row in image coords (in addition to yaw/pitch), so it will be possible to tell coords in the mosaic
• switch to pause mode at the end of shooting ?
• add radiobutton to switch from single to multiple positions selection
• add buton to generate new xml file (also reset xml when deselect/reselect it)
• do no generate preview positions after some number (depending of CPU speed?)
• add button to force generation of preview position (at any time)
• preview real image area (mapping on a sphere)
• use alternates spherical representation (cube, sphere...)

Shooting area color schemes

• background: area color outside of any position
• preview: unshoot position color
• skip: cunshoot position color which won't be shot
• ok: shot position color without error
• ok-reshoot: shot position color without error, which will be reshot
• error: shot position color with error
• error-reshoot:shot position color with error, which will be reshot
• border: border color of selected positions positions - all by default
• border-next: border color of the next position to shoot
• border-noselect: border color of unselected positions - for future zone selection
• head: crosshair cursor color for the head position

Default

• background: light grey (d0d0d0)
• preview: medium grey (c0c0c0)
• skip: dark grey (a0a0a0)
• ok: green (00ff00)
• ok-reshoot: light green (c0ffc0)
• error: red (ff0000)
• error-reshoot: light red (ffc0c0)
• border: black (000000)
• border-next: white (ffffff)
• border-noselect: ??? ()
• head: blue (0000ff)