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In article <Xns94877BE95236Dbobarcabca@198.80.55.250>, 
Fuzzy Logic <bob@arc.ab.caREMOVETHIS> wrote:
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>"Slartibartfast" <slarti@celynnen.FJORDSdemon.co.uk> wrote in news:bvufp9
>$isq$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk:
>> On a recent holiday, I tried to take several pictures of panoramic
>> scenes by taking one picture, moving the camera around to roughly where
>> the first picture would have finished, and then taking another.
>> 
>> I believe there is commercial software which will "stitch" these photos
>> together into one wide picture, but as I have very limited use for this
>> feature, I'm wondering whether any freeware is available which will do
>> the job
>
>Look at PTAssembler and Panorama Tools. More info here:
>
>http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/

Another good site for Panorama Tools is:

http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/

It also has links to a number of interesting topics, including:
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Panorama Tools: Documentation, Info and More Uses
Links to more Panorama Tools Resources 
Editing Panoramic Images: How to insert text and images 
Automatic Colour and Brightness Adjustment of Panoramas 
Using Fisheye Images for Architectural Photography 
Correcting Barrel Distortions 
Testing Interpolator Quality 
Why Gamma is important for Image Transformations 
About Wide Angle Perspective - Changing Perspective using Panorama 
Tools 
MakePan A small utility to convert PSphere (LivePicture) VR-panos to 
Smoothmove format and vice-versa. 
Reducing Noise in scanned images and increasing D using PTAverage. 
PTAverage is part of the PTStitcher package 
Scanning MF-film using 35mm Scanners. 
Correcting Color Separation in Scanning Back Cameras. 
Extracting Rectilinear Images from Panoramas. 
Zoomable Panoramas: High Resolution Images inside Webpanos. This 
example exhibits 70:1 zoom ratio without pixelation. 
VR-Panoramas without stitching: Using conventional photographs 
directly as source for immersive viewing 
Antialiasing: Displaying high resolution images (PTViewer) 
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You'll also find info and downloads there for PTViewer:
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PTViewer, free spherical Panorama Viewer. Small filesize, yet features 
high quality bilinear rendering. Java version supports hotspots. Reads 
and displays Quicktime VR-files (panoramas and objects) without the 
need for a Quicktime installation.
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Cheers, Phred.

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