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Panorama Tools

Panorama Tools is a collection of scripts and tools to remap images which have multiple uses and it is the basis upon which great part of the existing panorama editing and publishing programs is based on.

This tools created by Helmut Dersch are the mathematical foundation to which multiple applications, both free and commercial, add a graphic and intuitive front end that makes them accessible to a non-expert public. However, the Panorama Tools are many and diverse and they can be used without the need of the above mentioned adaptations.

The following pair of images taken from the original professor Dersch's website illustrates just a few of the transformations that can be achieved using Panorama Tools.

Image from Panorama Tools website - Movements

Image from Panorama Tools website - Projections

The continuity of the Panorama Tools project has been hampered since 2001 by the lawsuit filed against Helmut Dersch by the Ipix Company regarding the use of remapped images for creating immersive environments on which Ipix has intellectual property rights registered in the United States. However, the use of Panorama Tools is widely spread and is the basis of, among other programs, AutoPano, Calico Panorama, Hugin, PanoCube, PanoWizard, PTAssembler, PT-Gui, PTLens, PTMac and PTOpenGUI.

All these programs, with tones, apply the remapping Panorama Tools to the creation of panoramas from sets of photos, manipulating their shapes to optimize the seams and thus obtain a consistent final result. Among the most popular Panorama Tools include :

MPRemap is a tool which applies Panorama Tools to moving images to create remapped panoramic videos.

Panorama Tools Plugin allows to use Panorama Tools as if it was an edition tool to remap images into Adobe Photoshop or Gimp.

PTCompass creates a compass which combines with an interactive panorama viewer, so that the compass points on a floor plan at the same direction in which the panorama is being navigated.

PTEditor is an application that requires Java Runtime Environment and allows to interacively extract or insert images from panoramas, which could be modified on external image editors.

PTMedia inserts different elements into an interactive panorama such as linear Quick Time movies, Flash, .avi, .mpeg videos, sound files, etc.

PTMovies inserts a series of images as a video which could be part of an interactive panorama, matching as if they were both part of a single object or floating in front of it without being remapped as the rest does when the user goes around the scene.

PTObject is an interactive 3-D Objects viewer.

PTOptimizer is a utility to optimize the edition of pairs of control points between images partially overlapping to stitch them correctly.

PTPicker allows to select and edit control points in pairs of images from which coordinates are traced to stitch them.

PTStitcher creates from multiple photographs an intermediate layered image to which it later applies transformations such as blending or stitching the seams to create visually homogeneous panoramas.

PTViewer is one of the world's most popular interactive panorama viewers and it's highly customizable with a great number of options. Its functioning requires to have Java Runtime Environment installed, as it is in almost every PC these days.

PTViewerJS is a Javascript based panorama viewer and as such it only requires a browser to work without the need of any add-ons (such as Java or Flash).

PTViewerME is an interactive viewer for devices such as cell phones.

PTZoom allows to imperceptibly integrate high resolution images over areas of an interactive panorama so that it is possible to zoom into them without loosing image quality or details of the panorama.

The Panorama Tools website is an invaluable source of information for all those interested in going further than just the simple panoramic photograph creation to explore in depth the images's projection and mapping options and their linking to scripts that turn them into interactive environments.

Main Features

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Panorama Tools

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Platforms :	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BDS.
Languages :	English.
License :	Freeware.
Open Source :	Yes.
Weight :	941 Kb.
Author :	Helmut Dersch.
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Price :	0.00.
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