Panini Alternatives
Panini is described as 'visual tool for creating perspective views from panoramic and wide angle photographs. More than a pano viewer, more than a view camera, with features of both. For Linux/Unix, Win32, and Mac systems with OpenGL 2.0 +' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are seven alternatives to Panini for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted solutions, Linux and Online / Web-based. The best alternative is FSPViewer, which is free. Other great apps like Panini are Pannellum, Photo Sphere Viewer, PPV360HD and PURE Player.
FSPViewer is a free viewer for spherical (equirectangular) panoramic images. It is designed for viewing local (hard-disk, network or CD) high resolution panoramic images at full screen and with very high image quality.
Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web. Built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and WebGL, it is plug-in free. It can be deployed easily as a single file, just 15kB gzipped, and then embedded into pages as an <iframe>.
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A JavaScript library to display Photo Sphere panoramas.
PPV360HD is an Android and Windows Desktop application designed to view 360-degree panoramic photo with equirectangular or cylindrical projection, at very hi-res resolution.
Based on PURE technology, ImmerVision's panoramic image viewers combine superior performance capabilities with optimal viewing ease on either a standard office PC monitor or a pocket computer. The "immersive" panoramic experience is no longer limited to desktop...
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lux is an image viewer for 'normal' images and the most common types of panoramic images, typically showing a 'rectilinear' view to the image data, which looks as if this view had been taken with an 'ordinary' lens.
Panorado is a comfortable image viewer with special support for panoramic and HDR images, with browsing capabilities and some very useful imaging tools.
