Panini 0.63 disponible

[tksharpless]

Voila la notice en Anglais pour une nouvelle version de l'outil de conversion de perspective "Panini" par Tom Sharpless. Panini peut afficher panoramique de nombreux formats , en projections librement réglable. C'est ideal pour creer printable vues à partir de vos panoramas.

An updated version 0.63.94 of the Panini perspective tool is available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/. As usual there is a Win32 self installer, a Mac universal binary installer, and a source tree zip that builds on any platform that has Qt (4.2 - 4.5) and Gnu tools installed. Full instructions in panini-build.txt in the source distribution. For building on Mac with XCode, see http://wiki.panotools.org/Build_Panini_on_MacOSX.

This release fixes or works around two serious bugs related to cubic images, one of which only affected Mac systems.

The first was a major memory leak due to my not deleting old cube face images. This affected all platforms and could make Panini crash after dispaying a few large cubic QTVRs.

The other is apparently a bug in Apple's implementation of cubic texture mapping, that causes garbled display, or outright system crashes, when a cubic texture exceeds a certain size. This has been seen on a variety of OS X systems, on both PPC and Intel hardware, and with other apps. The critical size varies from system to system, but is always much smaller than the maximum feasible size reported by OpenGL.

The workaround is a limit on cubic texture size, applied only on Macs, that is adjustable via a new dialog. It is a persistent setting, so you only need to adjust it once -- if at all, the default will probably work on most recent Macs, and does not restrict the resolution of saved views too badly.

The only new functionality is that Panini also remembers window position and size between runs.

0.63 will probably be the last release of Panini in its present form. Version 1.0, which I hope to release next fall, will offer far more control of the viewing projection, based on user's indications of important perspective elements in the picture.

Enjoy! -- Tom

[gibie]

Tom,

Welcome to Panophoto forum ! :smt006

And thanks for this great piece of software !

[tksharpless]

Merci beaucoup. I'm very glad you like it.
-- Tom