Index: /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppStack.config
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--- /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppStack.config	(revision 25374)
+++ /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppStack.config	(revision 25375)
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@
 SKIP.BG.SUB	BOOL	FALSE		# Bypass background subtraction?
 
-RENORM		BOOL	FALSE		# Renormalise variance maps?
-RENORM.NUM	S32	10000		# Number of samples for renormalisation
-RENORM.MEAN	STR	ROBUST_MEDIAN	# Statistic to use for mean in renormalisation
-RENORM.STDEV	STR	ROBUST_STDEV	# Statistic to use for stdev in renormalisation
-RENORM.WIDTH	F32	2.2		# Gaussian width for normalisation
+RENORM		BOOL	TRUE		# Renormalise weight maps?
+RENORM.NUM	S32	100000		# Number of samples for renormalisation
+RENORM.MIN	F32	0.6		# Minimum value for renormlisation
+RENORM.MAX	F32	1.5		# Maximum value for renormalisation
 
 ### The PHOT mode is intended as a quick and dirty stopgap; it should disappear soon.
Index: /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppSub.config
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--- /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppSub.config	(revision 25374)
+++ /trunk/ippconfig/recipes/ppSub.config	(revision 25375)
@@ -37,16 +37,10 @@
 OPTIMUM.ORDER	S32	2		# Maximum polynomial order for optimum search
 
-RENORM		BOOL	FALSE		# Renormalise weight maps?
-RENORM.NUM	S32	10000		# Number of samples for renormalisation
-RENORM.MEAN	STR	ROBUST_MEDIAN	# Statistic to use for mean in renormalisation
-RENORM.STDEV	STR	ROBUST_STDEV	# Statistic to use for stdev in renormalisation
-RENORM.WIDTH	F32	2.2		# Gaussian width for normalisation
+RENORM		BOOL	TRUE		# Renormalise weight maps?
+RENORM.NUM	S32	100000		# Number of samples for renormalisation
+RENORM.MIN	F32	0.6		# Minimum value for renormlisation
+RENORM.MAX	F32	1.5		# Maximum value for renormalisation
 
 INTERPOLATION	STR	LANCZOS3	# Interpolation mode for bad pixels
-
-VARIANCE.RESCALE           BOOL FALSE	# empirically rescale the variance?
-VARIANCE.RESCALE.NSAMPLE   S32  100000	# number of pixels to select from image for measurement
-VARIANCE.RESCALE.MIN.VALID F32  0.66	# do not rescale the variance if the measured sigma less than this value (where 1.0 is expected)
-VARIANCE.RESCALE.MAX.VALID F32  1.50	# do not rescale the variance if the measured sigma more than this value (where 1.0 is expected)
 
 DUAL		BOOL	FALSE		# Dual convolution?