Panorama tools
Panorama Tools is a collection of programs and libraries for creating panorama images . They are also used by panorama programs, including hugin and Autopano .
The Panorama Tools were originally developed by the German physics and mathematics professor Helmut Dersch, who first developed them in 1998 and published them. After legal disputes with the graphics program developer iPIX, he voluntarily withdrew in 2001, and development was continued by other programmers.
In 2003 he released PTViewer 3, which can display HDR scenes and PTViewerME for mobile devices. He recently released PTViewerNG, a prototype of a spherical panorama viewer WebGL / HTML5 and PTStitcherNG, an ultra-fast streaming panorama stitcher that is partially compatible with his old PTStitcher and supported by PTGui.
In August 2007 Helmut Dersch decided to re-license the Panorama Tools under a GNU Lesser General Public License .
Web links
- panotools.sf.net Panotools project at Sourceforge (English)
- webuser.hs-furtwangen.de/~dersch Current website of Helmut Dersch, details on the license change (English)
- wiki.panotools.org Wiki to Panotools and panorama creation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ heise online: Patent dispute forces math professor to withdraw (update). Retrieved on July 17, 2018 (German).