What's new in Picolay 2024-02-15
Feb 16, 2024
- Smoothing of the depth map improved.
New in Picolay 2024-02-04 (Feb 5, 2024)
New in Picolay 2024-02-03 (Feb 4, 2024)
- Alignment and Stacking algorithm further improved.
New in Picolay 2024-01-05 (Jan 5, 2024)
- Stacking algorithm improved, now 10% faster.
New in Picolay 2024-01-04 (Jan 4, 2024)
- Various algorithms slightly improved, including Stacking procedure, Smart filter, Alignment.
New in Picolay 2023-10-25 (Oct 25, 2023)
- Hologram algorithm further improved. The settings used from the standard stacking Paramter panel are indicated in the name of the generated hologram file. These include Auto-enhance -> '_enh'', Prefer low or high frames -> '_Lo20' or '_Hi35' and Narrow or widen patches -> _p-5'.
New in Picolay 2023-08-24 (Aug 24, 2023)
- Hologram Stacking algorithm improved.
New in Picolay 2023-08-06 (Aug 6, 2023)
- Fine tuning of the Stacking algorithm.
New in Picolay 2023-07-29 (Jul 30, 2023)
- Fine tuning of the Stacking algorithm.
New in Picolay 2023-07-07 (Jul 8, 2023)
- Detection of large structures and Smart filter improved.
New in Picolay 2023-06-29 (Jun 30, 2023)
- Sorry for coming up with a new version after only three days! But I hope it will be worth to try the new version.
- I changed the standard settings to "Stacking speed" = Slow & fine. This will give more details. You can switch back to "Fast & good" under Options...
- The Smart filter was newly adjusted to give a better balance between small and large structures.
New in Picolay 2023-06-26 (Jun 26, 2023)
- Edge detection and alignment slightly improved, some (not all!) bugs fixed.
New in Picolay 2023-01-27 (Jun 26, 2023)
- Stacking algorithm and alignment slightly improved.
New in Picolay 2022-07-15 (Jul 15, 2022)
- Fine tuning of the stacking algorithm to gain better stacking results and smoother depth maps.
- Maximum filter size increased from 10 to to 13.
New in Picolay 2022-07-14 (Jul 15, 2022)
- Fine tuning of the stacking algorithm to gain better stacking results and smoother depth maps.
New in Picolay 2022-06-13 (Jun 14, 2022)
- Stacking algorithm further improved to give better edge detection.
New in Picolay 2022-06-01 (Jun 2, 2022)
- Stacking algorithm improved to give a better depth map at large scales.
New in Picolay 2022-04-22 (Apr 23, 2022)
- New formula for anaglyph colours included:
- As standard now the formula of Masuji Suto, author of the StereoPhoto Maker freeware, is used. This gives the best results particularly for red structures. Under 'Options' one can still select 'Full colour', 'Half colour' and 'Dubois' as well.
New in Picolay 2022-03-20 (Mar 21, 2022)
- New function added:
- Under 'Options' one can switch on 'Stacking speed: Slow & fine' instead of the standard setting 'Fast and good'. This will skip the down-sizing of images for structure recognition. Fine details might become better visible, but also more noise. You'll have to try whether this improves your result...
- PICOLAY has got a transparent background around its logo :)
- Minor changes of the stacking algorithm.
- Some minor bugs fixed.
New in Picolay 2021-12-22 (Dec 23, 2021)
- New functions added:
- Under 'Options' one can switch off the alphabetical re-ordering of loaded images. This might avoid problems coming up when filenames have different lentghs like 'image9', 'image10' ...
- Names generated by multiple-folder stacking are now precedeed by a number '01', '02'... indicating the folder they are coming from.
- Weighted average algorithm improved.
- Some minor bugs fixed.
New in Picolay 2021-05-04 (May 4, 2021)
New in Picolay 2021-04-10 (Apr 11, 2021)
New in Picolay 2021-04-05 (Apr 5, 2021)
- New adjustable stacking parameter weighted average creates smoother transitions between structures in distant layers
New in Picolay 2020-12-26 (Dec 27, 2020)
- Stacking algorithm significantly made faster again.
New in Picolay 2020-11-17 (Nov 18, 2020)
- Stacking algorithm improved and made a bit faster as well.
New in Picolay 2020-11-15 (Nov 15, 2020)
- Stacking algorithm improved and made a bit faster as well.
New in Picolay 2020-10-25 (Oct 27, 2020)
- One more bug fixed that slowed down the stacking routine.
- Another bug fixed (possible floating-point overflow).
New in Picolay 2020-10-11 (Oct 11, 2020)
- Loading of the image list was made much faster.
- Clipboard bug was not really fixed last time - now it is (hopefully).
New in Picolay 2020-09-13 (Sep 13, 2020)
New in Picolay 2020-08-27 (Aug 28, 2020)
- Sorry, there were some bugs in the 3D functions, which hopefully are fixed now.
- Stacking algorithm improved.
- 3D File naming improved.
New in Picolay 2020-08-11 (Aug 11, 2020)
- The detail-free background (generated by noise suppression) now can be selected from 6 options (mean, brightest or darkest pixel in the stack, average of the latter two, last image in the list, or adjustable target colour).
- Several bugs in the 3D functions were fixed... (Certainly not the last ones...)
New in Picolay 2020-07-30 (Jul 30, 2020)
- New 3D function: Areas without detail can be placed in the mid level of the z axis or on the bottom.
New in Picolay 2020-07-23 (Jul 24, 2020)
- The progress bar has got a new design, allows now for stopping image processing or quitting the program.
- The stacking algorithm was further developed...
New in Picolay 2020-07-03 (Jul 4, 2020)
- The background used for areas without detail can now be selected between: (1) Mean of all frames (as used so far), (2) darkest or (3) brightest pixels in the stack or (4) the average of the (2) and (3). The latter is set as default and can be changed under Options -> Use as stacking background.
- Artefact removal is now switched on by setting 'noise suppression' to a value >0. Default setting is now '1'. The additional button from the last version was removed to keep the panel as simple as possible.
- Internal parameters for conversion of color images to grey scale were slightly changed.
New in Picolay 2020-06-10 (Jun 10, 2020)
- There was a bug in the last version concerning the file generation during multiple-folder stacking. This one has been fixed now.
New in Picolay 2020-06-08 (Jun 8, 2020)
- After years without change the stacking parameter panel has got a new check box: Artefact removal, designed to remove artificial structures appearing during the stacking routine. Default setting is 'checked', but one can switch it off, if it is not improving the result.
- PICOLAY filenames have been changed a bit as well. The PICOLAY stacked image is named 'pystkd' (former 'pysharp'), and '-ar' indicates artefact removal switched off..
New in Picolay 2020-05-11 (May 11, 2020)
- PICOLAY becomes multilingual. Italian and Spanish manuals are now included in the program or can be downloaded from the PICOLAY website -> Manuals ...
- Further fine tuning of the stacking algorithm ...
New in Picolay 2020-05-03 (May 3, 2020)
- Fine tuning of the new stacking algorithm ...
New in Picolay 2020-04-30 (Apr 30, 2020)
- Fine tuning of the new stacking algorithm and image alignment.
- Sorry for coming up with a new version so quickly after the last one, but this one should be a bit better...
New in Picolay 2020-04-28 (Apr 29, 2020)
- Fine tuning of the new stacking algorithm and image alignment.
New in Picolay 2020-04-27 (Apr 28, 2020)
- Fine tuning of the new stacking algorithm and image alignment.
New in Picolay 2020-04-20 (Apr 28, 2020)
- Completely new stacking algorithm based on a Gaussian filter (5x5) applied on three different scales. A bit faster as well...