Software to View, Create, Edit and Remap Panoramic Images :
 

• PTStitcher:               High quality, simple to use, all format stitching software.
• Panorama Tools:       Photoshop plug-in for panorama creation, editing and remapping.
• PTViewer:                High quality spherical viewer, Standalone and java versions for many platforms.

(1) High Quality Image Transformations:

• Only package that uses bicubic and better interpolators (see this article).
• Calculations performed on gamma corrected image data (see this article) in double precision floating point format.
• One resampling step combines all transformations including lens calibration and correction, warping, tilt and rotation correction, scanner and color correction, etc, thus preserving image quality.
• Provides self-calibration of lens distortion and field-of-view, tilt/yaw/rotation,  image alignment, and scanner correction.

• Supports more formats: All major VR plug-ins and java viewers are accessible, as well as panoramic image creation for viewing and printing.
• Supports more projections and mappings (full spherical, cylindrical, cubic, equirectangular, etc).
• Supports more image correction and manipulation options.
• Supports more input image formats: any normal lens, any fisheye lens, any panoramic camera, any scanning camera, any convex mirror, any combination of these, etc.
• Only package that supports arbitrary multirow panoramas.
• More computer platforms supported (MacOS, Win32, Unix, almost any system supporting ANSI-C and Java).

• Drop your images onto PTStitcher's icon, and get back a panoramic image ready to be viewed.

• Panorama Tools and PTStitcher are free and open source software. Download a copy from the links below.
• All panoramic images generated using this software are free to use, without per-click fees.

Download and Read about Panorama Tools and PTStitcher

• Read about Panorama Tools and PTSTitcher
• What Users say about this software.
• Frequently Asked Questions about Panorama Tools
• PanoTools: This package includes the programs
  • PTStitcher, Panorama Stitcher for almost any input and output format.
  • PTPicker, Graphical User interface for image alignment.
  • PTStereo, creates 3-dimensional objects from pairs or many images
  • PTInterpolate, given two images of the same scene taken from different viewpoints, this tool creates any intermediate view.
  • PTMorpher, morphing tool.
  • PTAverage, reduces noise in digital images by averaging several scans.
  • PTStripe, combines images into movie stripes for viewing in Object-viewers.
  • Panorama Tools, Set of Photoshop and GraphicConverter PlugIns for Panorama creation and editing.
  • PTEditor, Visual Panorama Editor.
• Download PanoTools 2.6:
  • Macintosh Version 2.6b1 Also download the following
  • Bugfix for Macintosh version
  • Macintosh Examples
  • Windows Version 2.6b1, includes Gimp plug-in
  • Windows Examples
  • Linux Version Version 2.6b1 (no plugin)
  • Linux Examples
  • Documentation and Tutorial for PTEditor
• PTViewer, free spherical Panorama Viewer. Small filesize, yet features high quality bilinear rendering. Java version supports hotspots. Reads and displays Quicktime VR-files (panoramas and objects) without the need for a Quicktime installation.
  • Java Applet and Application Version 2.1 for Java 1.0.4 or above, includes sources .
  • Java Applet and Application Version 2.5 for Java 1.0.4 or above.
  • PTCrypt and DeCrypt Crypting utility for protecting Images, works with PTViewer.
  • Basic PTViewer Documentation
  • Examples for many PTViewer features.
  • HowTo make Single-File-Tours
  • Extensions: 3D-Object viewer, Movies, Animations, Compass and more .
  • Viewing Quicktime VR without Quicktime
  • Object Movie Example
  • Animation Example
  • Macintosh Native Version 0.4
  • Windows Native Version 0.4
  • X11 Native Version 0.4 for Linux/Unix with Sources .

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Panoramas generated using Panorama Tools

To view the panoramas, you need one of several viewers. The Java viewer "PTViewer" is the simplest solution, since no additional download is required, and it provides high image image quality at the same time. All that is needed is a Java-enabled browser. Some panoramas are provided in the format for LivePicture's Java viewer. Faster display is achieved with plug-in based viewers, but these require download and installation of a plug-in, which may be quite large. Also, plug-ins don't run on all platforms. Plug-in solutions used on this site are provided by LivePicture (ZoomIT-viewer), Infinite Pictures, and (the best but largest download) Apple.

Spherical Panoramas can also be viewed by VRML-viewers.This page describes the use of VRML-browsers and the conversion to cubic format.

Panorama Tools: Documentation, Info and More Uses

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Last updated March 19, 2001
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