PTAINTERPOLATE(1)

💖 PTAINTERPOLATE(1) 💖

ok so real talk bestie, this one lives in the LIBPANO13 TOOLS fam and it's literally the glow-up nobody asked for but everyone needed. pull up a chair 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

PTAInterpolate — interpolate intermediate images between stereo photos. yes. it makes the in-between frames. the bridging frames. the ✨tween✨ frames. iconic behaviour honestly. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

PTAInterpolate script_file [param2]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

PTAInterpolate interpolates intermediate images between stereo photos. that's the whole vibe. it takes your left pic and your right pic and goes "ok but what about the pics between them" and then actually makes them. main character energy fr fr. 😭💖

📖 the lore (aka Description)

so here's the tea 🍓: this program is an enhanced version of Helmut Dersch's original PTInterpolate program. and the wild part? PTInterpolate's source code was never released — like, ever. so this one was written from scratch, no cap, no copying off anybody's homework because there was no homework to copy. 🙈

it is believed that this program should function as a substitute for the original PTInterpolate program in most circumstances. (believed. as in, that's the claim. we're saying it, not swearing a blood oath to it. 😌)

so what did the glow-up add? so glad you asked:

1. When used with the accompanying source code in the original distribution, the output is in TIFF format, not PSD (with an incorrect extension) 💀 — yeah, the old one was out here naming files like it's one thing when it's actually another. not us.
2. The output files produced by this program include a numeric value indicating the amount of the interpolation position between left and right images 🔢✨ — so you always know where in the sweep you are. so organised. so slay.
3. If no valid "i" lines are included in script, then this program triangulates the c lines, and overwrites the script file 👑 — heads up bestie, that's an overwrite. it is not asking first. back up your script if the vibes feel fragile.

🫶 Usage

PTAInterpolate script.txt [param2]

Where "param2" is either an image index (0=left, 1=right) to be used when triangulating, or a filename prefix to be used when interpolating.

like. pick a lane. index mode or prefix mode. both are valid, both are cute, just don't make it guess. 💅

lowkey reminder: the synopsis says script_file, but the usage example says script.txt, and both are just... the script, bestie. the file with the instructions. iykyk.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• <http://wiki.panotools.org/> — the whole panotools wiki, go be nosy, it's giving research era 📚

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Max Lyons, January 2007. Panorama Tools was originally created by Professor Helmut Dersch.

(legend behaviour from both of them, fr fr 🫡)

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀✨ Version: 2.9.23, dated 2025-10-25 — go interpolate something gorgeous, you absolute icon 💖🦋🌸