PanGazer - a new application for viewing Mavic Panoramas

[mfc]

I've been working for a few months now on a new viewer for panoramas I've been taking on my Mavic Pro. It is now available at PanGazer - introduction. Here's a summary of the main features:

• PanGazer is a free (and advert-free) Windows application for viewing images and panoramas, including 360° spherical and hemispherical panoramas as captured by drones.
  
  
• The PanGazer package includes a 'starter spherical panorama’ of the Bejes village and mountains in Spain, taken with my Mavic Pro; PanGazer lets you look around the full 360°, and also pitch up or down, including straight down.
  
  
• PanGazer detects spherical 360° panoramas automatically and you can pan around them easily, but you can also use it for viewing non-spherical panoramas and other images.
  
  
• When viewing ‘hemispherical’ panoramas (e.g., drone panoramas from the Mavic and similar drones) which typically cover 20° above the horizon and 90° below, PanGazer will automatically set the correct horizon.
  
  
• You can save views to disk, effectively extracting individual photographs from a panorama.
  
  
• Strong image enhancements (brightness, etc.) are available to help you identify features of interest.
  
  
• Multiple views (windows) are supported – you can view different images, or the the same image, from multiple angles and zooms at the same time. For example, you can compare still images with views of a panorama.
  
  
• If an image is geotagged (e.g., from a Mavic) you can select 'view satellite image' to see (using Google Maps) where the image was taken.
  
  
• PanGazer uses a fast multi-threaded implementation of the gnomonic projection which reduces apparent distortion of horizontals and verticals. Interpolation is used to improve the display of zoomed or low-resolution images.

All comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome!

Mike Cowlishaw

 

[Aerial-Pixel]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing, I'll give it a shot!

 

[mfc]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing, I'll give it a shot!

Hope you liked it?!

Just put out a new version; this one adds two new features:

• Image files can now be dragged to any MapGazer window to open them; if more than one, new windows will be opened for them.
  
  
• Coordinates can now be displayed in UTM format.

Mike

 

[mfc]

Latest adds the ability to add compass points, e.g.:

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[MaviCam]

I really like this. Thank you!!!

It makes pano's worth doing because they look so much better in your viewer.

 

[mfc]

I really like this. Thank you!!!

It makes pano's worth doing because they look so much better in your viewer.

Thank you! More features soon.

 

[mfc]

Some new features in 1.17:

• New ‘Set image geography’ dialog allows editing the location, elevation, bearing, and tilt data for images.
  
  
• New ‘Show tilt angles’ overlay optionally shows an ‘angle strip’ on the left of a view (similar to the compass points for bearings).
  
  
• The compass points and tilt angles overlays are shown automatically when the Image Geography dialog is open.
  
  
• New ‘Set horizon’ in pop-up menu allows setting the horizon for images (similar to ‘Set North’).
  
  
• Elevations can now be displayed in metres and feet (or both), and can be edited in either unit.
  
  
• Dragging an image to an open PanGazer window now opens a new window instead of replacing the existing image.

Mike

 

[Ronny St.]

Fantastic piece of software! I was the solution to my quest.
Thank you for providing this to us all as freeware!