Panorama Tools was originally created by Professor Helmut Dersch of the University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen.
Sourceforge have moved all the repositories! If you have libpano13 checked out via Mercurial, you need to switch to the new path since the old repository is now read-only.
The repositories for the other projects (Panotools::Script, GIMP plugin, Photoshop filters, and MPRemap) have now switched from Subversion to Mercurial, so you will need to check these out again.
libpano13-2.9.18 released. libpano13 is the PanoTools library, this release adds the Thoby projection and bugfixes.
Switch to Mercurial. libpano13 sourcecode development has moved from SVN (Subversion) to HG (Mercurial), see below for instructions to fetch the current development code.
libpano13-2.9.18_beta1 released. libpano13 is the PanoTools library, this release adds the Thoby projection and is required to test recent Hugin snapshots.
Google Summer of Code 2010 completed. All students have completed successfully, Tomasz Meger has added a test suite to libpano13.
libpano13-2.9.17 released. libpano13 is the PanoTools library, this release adds a new output projection, mosaic mode, cleanups and bugfixes.
libpano13-2.9.14 released. libpano13 is the PanoTools library, this release adds a number of new input and output projections, a new command-line tool, documentation, cleanups and bugfixes.
hugin/panotools has been accepted again as a mentoring organisation for the 2009 Summer of Code. If you are a full time student and would like to apply for a paid summer internship with Google and mentored by our team, then you need to get involved now, see: We want you and Summer of Code ideas.
If you are a full time student and would like to apply for a paid summer internship with Google and mentored by our team, then you need to get involved now to develop the project brief before the application deadline: March 31 5:00 PM PDT. More details here: panotools/hugin Google Summer of Code 2008
Five google Summer of Code students have been accepted. The following projects are scheduled for completion by August 31 2007:
Hugin and panotools are participating in google Summer of Code 2007, where students are paid by Google to work on hugin and/or panotools and mentored by experts in the field.
Some suitable projects are listed on the panotools wiki SoC 2007 projects page.
The deadline for student applications is 24th March 2007. Application details can be found on the Google SoC 2007 page on the wiki.
The old PanoTools User list has been abandoned by most of the regular contributors due to management issues. The recommended mailing list for support is now the PanoToolsNG yahoo list.
To clarify the situation, these are now the relevant lists for discussion of Panotools and related software:
All the panotools projects have now switched to Mercurial (HG). Any CVS or Subversion (SVN) repositories you may have are out-of-date.
Note that most of these software packages come supplied with a pre-compiled version of the library and everything else needed to stitch photographs - You probably don't need to download anything from here.
There may or may not be US patents covering stitching of fisheye photographs, consequently the sourcecode of this library has an artificial limit that prevents the use of fisheye images with a field of view greater than 160°.
All files available on this site are licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Most front ends for Panorama Tools use the PTStitcher tool to do the actual stitching, this has no available source-code, so you may need to download PTStitcher separately or use the included PTmender replacement for PTStitcher which is still under development. Note that hugin contains a drop-in Open Source replacement for PTStitcher called nona.
Hugin, the GUI stitching front-end, usually ships with a recent version of the library and command-line tools. So just download hugin to get hold of panotools and start stitching.
A Windows installer containing a recent version of the library, the command-line tools and the Photoshop plugins is available at Jim Watters' site
An OS X bundle containing the library is available here.
There will be occasional binary versions available from Sourceforge file downloads. Though if you want the very latest version, you may have to compile from source.
If you are running Windows you need to install a Mecurial client before downloading the source code - Linux users will probably have Mercurial installed already.
Basic instructions for downloading the pano13 library source code are:
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/panotools/libpano13
Instructions can be found in the source, these instructions may be out-of-date for your platform, feel free to contribute updated versions.
Questions and answers about usage of the various tools and front-ends belong on the PanoToolsNG mailing-list, you might want to consult the PanoTools wiki before posting.
There is a panotools-devel mailing list for questions regarding compiling the source and developing it further.
Anyone subscribing to 'panotools-devel' should also subscribe to panotools-cvs to receive a copy of each sourcecode SVN commit.
The PanoTools wiki aims to be the definitive reference for Panorama Tools. It contains a lot of usage documentation for the tools hosted here on sourceforge.
The Launchpad tracker has our bug tracking database. If you find a bug in libpano13, you can report it there.
IQTVRA have a comprehensive set of panoramic image related links
Last updated 13th May 2013 - Bruno Postle