Panorama Viewer

3D accelerated application for viewing Hugin panoramas

Panorama Viewer

The application

An application for viewing panoramas was created by Daniel Martin Marin. The application allows to view panoramas, which have been aligned with Hugin before. The application makes use of OpenGL and therefore can exploit 3D acceleration provided by modern graphic cards to transform and display the images.

You can download the report here. The source code of the software is available under the terms and conditions of the GPL. You can download it here: panorama.tar.gz (74 kByte).

Todo

• Hugin's parameters for camera distortion are not supported yet.
• Support for different types of projections.

Gallery

The gallery shows some panorama images created with Hugin.

West Kirby

West Kirby input images

Resulting panorama image created with Hugin

Hilbre Island/Little Hilbre

Little Hilbre input images

Resulting panorama image created with Hugin

Also see friends of Hilbre web-page.

Dublin Port

Dublin Port input images

Resulting panorama image created with Hugin

Also see Dublin Port website.

London Heathrow

Panorama of London Heathrow created with Hugin and Enblend.

London Heathrow input images

Resulting panorama image created with Hugin

Landscape for Stellarium

Stellarium is a free and open source planetarium software with an emphasis on photorealism. Stellarium allows you to define custom landscapes. The software accepts different types of panorama images. For real-time display the panorama is converted to a sphere consisting of textured polygones. This object can be rendered in real-time using hardware acceleration provided by modern graphics cards.

Sheffield River Rivelin panorama image and screenshot of Stellarium software using an edited version of it

See Stellarium-Wiki for download and installation instructions.

See Also

• Available student projects

External Links

• Photo stitching software PtGui (commercial)
• Rodriguez Matrix
• Panorama Tools software suite (mirror of Helmut Dersch's former web-page)
• Hugin
  • HDR workflow with hugin
  • submission of this software to hugin tracker
  • OpenGL preview in Google Summer of Code 2008
• Enblend
• Autopano-SIFT
• Depth of focus for panorama tools
• Autostitch (commercial)
• Wikipedia picture of the day Nov 12th is a nice example of a panorama picture
• Panoptics is a Sheffield based company offering high quality panorama photography
• Paul Bourke's homepage offers lots of information about planetarium projections
• Construction of panoramas from video sequences
• Microsoft Photosynth
• Panotools Meeting 2007