PanoPost

PanoPost is a post-processing tool that was developed primarily for scanning-type panoramic cameras. PanoPost performs the needed functions to complete a perfect cylindrical or equi-rectangular source image that¹s ready to use in your favorite VR player. These functions include:

• Wraps a panorama to 360 degrees and blends the seam perfectly.
  
• Previews and crops equirectangular images for cubic VR.
  
• Corrects color distortion inherent in tri-linear CCD scanning cameras when shooting with fisheye lenses for cubic or spherical VR.
  
• Corrects geometry distortion of certain fisheye lenses for use with cubic or spherical VR.
  
• Automatically resizes fisheye images to equirectangular 2:1 proportions that are ideal for use with cubic or spherical VR players.
  

PanoPost works with any panoramic image that is a seamless image of 360 degrees or more. The image can be of any vertical field of view but PanoPost is particularly useful for creating fully equirectangular images from digital scanning cameras like the Panoscan™. PanoPost can open most popular image types such as TIFF, BMP, PICT and JPEG but PanoPost processes and saves the image files out in TIFF format only. The resulting TIFF file can be further processed for your VR player of choice such as QuickTime VR, Zoomify, Live Picture, JAVA, Hot Media and many more.

PanoPost can be used to process images from almost any 360 degree scanning type camera including digital or film based systems. The wrapping and blending feature is useful with the film based cameras such as:

• Seitz Roundshot
  
• Globuscope
  
• Circuit
  
• Hulcherama

PanoPost is especially well suited for use with digital 360 degree scanning cameras that use tri-linear CCD¹s like:

• Panoscan
  
• Spheron
  
• SliVR
  
• Epan