| PanGazer – thanks |
Introduction Download PanGazer Getting started General settings Setting North Saving views Saving images Sharing images Image geography Show image location Overlays Spherical fills Enhancements Aspect ratio Making panoramic images The gnomonic projection Coordinate formats Keyboard shortcuts Command line options Saved metadata Thanks | Except as mentioned below, PanGazer is a new application, written since April 2018 and sharing most of its modules with MapGazer ». It is written in C, and follows and extends the object-like code conventions » I developed for the Tollos supervisor ». As of August 2023, it comprises about 39,000 lines of my code. Special thanks are due to: Laurens Blanckenborg for many suggestions for, and lengthy testing of, the PanGazer user interface. Fulvio Senore, whose excellent 360° FSPViewer » prompted me to expand on his ideas and write PanGazer, and who has been especially helpful in advising on colour management. Bill Collis, Juan Corrin, and Martin Korinek, for encouragement, many good suggestions, and testing. Juan’s Matienzo caves project » has dozens of panoramas suitable for viewing with PanGazer. Kittredge Cowlishaw, for helping solve the bounding condition for minimum zoom for spherical projections. Wolfram MathWorld for its accurate description » of the gnomonic projection (but note that the formulae presented there can be simplified considerably; see my gnomonic projection page), and Ed Williams for his Aviation Formulary. Mark Cowlishaw, for identifying and illustrating aspect ratio issues and zoom distortions, and other good suggestions. Erik Krause, for his reporting and exemplary testing of a problem that I was unable to recreate. Don Abrams, for his suggestions and helpful comments. Pascal van Voren for testing many panoramas, and some excellent testcases. Ismam Huda, for an elegant formula for an S-shaped curve that I have used for contrast enhancements (and augmented to both dimensions so the control parameter is also [0..1]). Daniel Radu and the rest of the Advanced Installer team that made it possible to create the simple `.msi` Windows installer for this application. Darrell Commander, for libjpeg-turbo development and support, and many useful suggestions (PanGazer uses libjpeg-turbo as a compile-time switchable alternative to jpeglib, giving file loads that are twice as fast). The Independent JPEG Group (Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding, et al) for jpeglib, also used for JPG-encoded images. Lode Vandevenne – for lodepng, which allows me to handle PNG-encoded images when Windows cannot. Curtis Galloway, Lutz Mueller, et al, for libexif which I use for manipulating Exif metadata in images (e.g., to extract GPS coordinates and save image bearings). Charles Petzold – it had been ten years since I wrote a Windows application, and his Programming Windows (5th edition) book proved as useful now as it did back then. The developers of GCC – the compiler used to compile PanGazer. All the people that put together the Win-builds and MingW resources that made it possible to build this application using GCC; extra thanks for the painless 64-bit support. The Microsoft, IBM, and other teams who built the Windows and OS/2 APIs that underpin the application. |

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