ERECT2MERCATOR(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 ERECT2MERCATOR(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page for erect2mercator, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 1am 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

erect2mercator — extract a mercator projection from an equirectangular image 💅

✨ Synopsis ✨

erect2mercator equirectangular.tif

that's it. one file in. iconic. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what it does is: it generates a suitably sized mercator .pto project from a 360 degree equirectangular image. 🌈

The input can be in any image format understood by hugin (she's flexible like that 💁). The output is in TIFF format, with an aspect ratio of 1.618:1 — a golden rectangle. Golden ratio? In my panorama tool? It's more likely than you think ✨

The output filename gets derived automatically from the input filename, with -mercator.pto appended. 🎀

Now listen, no cap: existing .pto files will not be clobbered. They will get updated when input images change size, though. So nothing gets nuked, it just keeps up with you. 💖

<http://hugin.sourceforge.net/>

✨ License ✨

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 📜✨

✨ See Also ✨

  • perl
  • Panotools::Script

✨ Author ✨

Bruno Postle <bruno AT postle.net> 🌸

and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💜 this was ERECT2MERCATOR(1) from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — she's a little vintage, she's a little iconic, and she's literally just out here un-warping your panoramas. slay. 🦋✨💅

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