Panini – pano viewer.. new way to look at your photo.

2010-04-28 2 min read Linux

Some information on Panini:

Panini can load most common photo and <a class="zem_slink" title="Panorama" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama">panoramic formats from image
files such as those created with hugin or QuickTimeVR (<a class="zem_slink" title="QuickTime VR" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/qtvr/">QTVR <a class="zem_slink" title="QuickTime" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">.mov)
files.  Like all pano viewers, it then shows a <a class="zem_slink" title="Perspective (graphical)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_%28graphical%29">linear perspective
view that can be panned and zoomed. But Panini can also display a
range of <a class="zem_slink" title="Wide-angle lens" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-angle_lens">wide angle perspectives via the stereographic and
&#8221;Pannini&#8221; vedutismo families of projections, and shift, rotate, and
stretch the image like a <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software <a class="zem_slink" title="View camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_camera">view camera.

Installing of Panini:

sudo yum install Panini

Note the capital P in Panini. Also note that you need to have P in Panini for execution also <img style="vertical-align: bottom;" src="http://sc.webmessenger.msn.com/10.1.0323.0/session/images/emoticons/smile_regular.gif" alt=":)" />.

It&#8217;s a panoramic view, meaning that once you load the image you can use right and left <a class="zem_slink" title="Arrow keys" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_keys">arrow keys or the mouse to move the image. Do not forget to check out the other viewing options in the menus. Quite impressive, I must say.

Interesting Tip:

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