12 | Panini is a tool for creating perspective views from panoramic and wide angle images. 13 |
14 |15 | Panini can load most common photo and panoramic formats from image files such 16 | as those created with hugin or QuickTimeVR (QTVR .mov) files. Like all pano 17 | viewers, it then shows a linear perspective view that can be panned and zoomed. 18 | But Panini can also display a range of wide angle perspectives via the 19 | stereographic and "Pannini" vedutismo families of projections, and shift, 20 | rotate, and stretch the image like a software view camera. 21 |
22 |23 | Panini can do those things because it paints the picture on a three dimensional 24 | surface, either a sphere or a cylinder, which you then view in perspective. 25 | Shifting the point of view changes the apparent perspective of the image, and 26 | other controls let you frame the view to your liking. Then you can save the 27 | screen image to a file at higher-than-screen resolution. 28 |
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