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In https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/postid/26970/ I described how my Vaonis Vespera makes a mosaic by progressively generating something like a spiral of frames, where there is usually significant overlap between adjacent frames.
Currently the only way to stack these with APP is to go through an incredibly expensive pair-wise star matching process for every possible pair of frames.
I'd like to suggest an alternate mode, where APP first just tries to match against the last "X" frames. If a match is not found, try matching against "Y" previous frames chosen at random. If a match is still not found, add the frame to a queue to be checked later against the whole mosaic accumulated thus far.
I will pass this on to Mabula and ask if that would make sense for his algorithm.
Hi Ray @raybellis,
We are planning to rewrite our mosaic algorithms. Once done, your data should work well and fast then in mosaic mode 😉 We will move away from the current naive method of finding all connections of all frames to the other frames.
Mabula
