libpano mit Homebrew, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• PTblender
• PTcrop
• PTinfo
• PTmasker
• PTmender
• PToptimizer
• PTroller
• PTtiff2psd
• PTtiffdump
• PTuncrop
• panoinfo

Projektgeschichte

Panorama Tools originated with Helmut Dersch's work at the University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen. The libpano13 README still identifies the library as part of Dersch's Panorama Tools and lists command-line tools such as PToptimizer and PTmender.

Community development continued on SourceForge, where the project describes libpano13 as the cross-platform library behind the Hugin photo stitcher. Development moved from Subversion to Mercurial in February 2011, and SourceForge repository paths changed again in May 2013.

Adoptionsgeschichte

libpano13 is most visible through Hugin and other panorama front ends, but it remains valuable as a scriptable command-line stack. Hugin documentation explains that PanoTools project files remain useful with Hugin, PTGui, PTAssembler, and related tools, and that command-line scripting helps automate repeated panorama work.

Wie es verwendet wird

A typical libpano13 command-line workflow uses PTmender to map images, PTblender or PTmasker for color and mask work, PTroller to merge TIFFs, PTcrop or PTuncrop for canvas adjustment, and panoinfo or PTinfo for inspection. That makes the package useful both as a library dependency and as a toolbox for batch panorama processing.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

libpano13 is package-nerd catnip because it is the quiet geometry engine under a familiar GUI application. It carries old-school Unix virtues into photography: text project files, small tools, repeatable batch processing, and a library ABI that Hugin and other front ends depend on.

Zeitleiste

• 2009: libpano13 2.9.14 added projections, a command-line tool, documentation, cleanups, and fixes.
• 2010: libpano13 2.9.17 added a projection, mosaic mode, cleanups, and fixes.
• 2011: libpano13 development moved from Subversion to Mercurial.
• 2011: libpano13 2.9.18 added the Thoby projection and was needed for Hugin 2011.0.0.
• 2023: libpano13 2.9.22 removed or stubbed insecure command-tool data-handling paths while keeping ABI compatibility.

Related projects

• Hugin is the main graphical panorama stitcher associated with libpano13.
• PTGui, PTAssembler, and related tools use PanoTools-style project files and workflows.
• Panotools::Script, GIMP plugin, Photoshop filters, and MPRemap are sibling projects in the Panorama Tools SourceForge area.

Quellen

• https://hugin.sourceforge.io/docs/manual/Panorama_scripting_in_a_nutshell.html
• https://panotools.sourceforge.net/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/panotools/libpano13/ci/default/tree/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/panotools/files/libpano13/libpano13-2.9.22/
• https://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools