Leonid's New Year Challenge

[Thomas Sharpless]

Hello, ptx

My entry is a "Panini projection" made with the new program "panini" (formerly pvQt).  I stitched Leonid's photos with PTGui "on autopilot" except for a center point adjustment required by the very low horizon, giving an ordinary looking equirectangular pano, which I then fiddled with visually in panini for a couple of minutes.

The "Panini" is a simple combination of cylindrical and rectilinear projections, recently deduced by Bruno Postle from a fabulous wide angle painting of St Peter's by the 18th century artist and professor of perspective Gianpaolo Panini.  The great Baroque view painters may or may not have used it explicitly, but it certainly does make wide angle pictures that look like the ones they drew.

The first release of panini (corresponding to pvQt 0.6) will be available in a day or two.

Cheers, Tom

[Daniel M German]

Thomas Sharpless twisted the bytes to say:

Thomas> The "Panini" is a simple combination of cylindrical and rectilinear projections, recently deduced by Bruno Postle from a fabulous wide angle
Thomas> painting of St Peter's by the 18th century artist and professor of perspective Gianpaolo Panini. The great Baroque view painters may or may
Thomas> not have used it explicitly, but it certainly does make wide angle pictures that look like the ones they drew.

Thanks to Tom and Bruno I am working on the implementation in
panotools. In fact, tonight I am trying to figure the math.
So hopefully soon it will be in hugin too.

--dmg