Virtual Tour Tools
Software to View, Create, Edit and Remap Panoramic Images
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PTStitcher: High quality, simple to use, all format
stitching software.
Virtual Tour Tools: Photoshop plug-in for Virtual Tour
creation, editing and remapping.
PTViewer: High quality spherical viewer, Standalone and
java versions for many platforms.
Features:
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.
(2) Most versatile Virtual Tour Software:
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 Virtual
Tours.
More computer platforms supported (MacOS, Win32, Unix,
almost any system supporting ANSI-C and Java).
(3) Simple to use:
Drop your images onto PTStitcher's icon, and get back
a panoramic image ready to be viewed.
(4) Free to use,
no royalties
Virtual Tour 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.
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What Users say about this software.
Frequently Asked Questions about Virtual Tour Tools
PanoTools: This package includes the programs
PTStitcher, Virtual Tour 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.
Virtual Tour Tools, Set of Photoshop and GraphicConverter
PlugIns for Virtual Tour creation and editing.
PTEditor, Visual Virtual Tour Editor.
Download PanoTools 2.6:
Macintosh Version 2.6b1
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 Virtual Tour Viewer. Small
filesize, yet features high quality bilinear rendering.
Java version
supports hotspots. Reads and displays Quicktime
VR-files (Virtual Tours and objects) without the
need for
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To
view the Virtual Tours, 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 Virtual Tours 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
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