Panorama Tools

[citation needed] Dersch started development on Panorama Tools in 1998, producing software available for creating panoramas and more, but had to stop development in 2001 due to legal harassment and claims of patent infringement by the company IPIX.

[2] Dersch released the core library (pano12) and some of the programs of Panorama Tools under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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On 5 August 2007, Dersch announced his intention to relicense the Panorama Tools source code.

To make working with Panorama Tools easier and to add functionality, many interactive, graphical front-ends to Panorama Tools have been developed, both open source (e.g. Hugin) and commercial (e.g. PTgui and PTMac), along with a variety of other companion applications (e.g. smartblend and enblend), which in many cases make interacting directly with the programs in the original Panorama Tools toolset unnecessary.

An example of Panorama Tools' ability to remap an image shot with a fisheye lens (top) into rectilinear perspective (bottom) .