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Notes from a Gnome
Where we hard-working gnomes will deliver you news, updates and other gnome-like bits.
Archive for August, 2008Pano2VR 2.1 beta3 releasedFriday, August 29th, 2008I just released another beta of 2.1. The changes are:
You can download the new beta version from the download page. Pano2VR 2.1 beta 2 is now availableThursday, August 21st, 2008Hi! On August 19th, Pano2VR 2.1 beta 2 was released. This release just fixed some bugs:
Happy playing!! Pano2VR 2.1 and large imagesThursday, August 7th, 2008As I am back from Prague I have a little time to write about another nice new feature of the Pano2VR 2.1 beta. Pano2VR 2.0 used (for the most part) the Qt images library. This library required the whole image to be stored in the main memory. While remapping this means that also a second copy is completely in the memory and for loading and saving it needed another one. With Pano2VR 2.1 the whole image library has been rewritten and replaced so now the image processing is tile base and those tiles can be stored on the hard disk while they are not needed. This allows much larger images to be processed. Now the maximal processable image size results from the used file formats. The maximum file size of TIFF files is 2 GB (no limits on dimensions), PNG is limited to 32.000 x 32.000 pixels and JPEG to 25.000 x 25.000. I hope you find this new feature (in association with the patch tool) useful. Please use the forum to leave your comments. Now with PatchThursday, August 7th, 2008As announced at this year’s PanoTools meeting in Prague, Pano2VR 2.1 Beta is now available. The latest feature addition is the Patch Tool. The patch tool lets you non-destructively extract a portion of your image (for instance, removing the tripod and/or photographer from the image) to be retouched in an image editing software and then import the retouched image back into to Pano2VR to patch over the existing image’s problem area. A very handy tool! Familiarize yourself of the handiness of the new Patch Tool (tutorial). |
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