ERECT2PLANET(1)

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version 0.29 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet erect2planet 💖 — she's the one who extracts a stereographic 'little planet' from an equirectangular image 🪐✨

(yeah this is a Perl script from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, we're in the <pink>ERECT2PLANET(1)</pink> zone, iykyk 💅)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

erect2planet equirectangular.tif

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one little line and you get a whole planet 🌍

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So here's the tea, bestie ☕: this tool generates a suitably sized stereographic .pto project out of a 360 degree equirectangular image. Iconic behaviour honestly.

Input can be in any image format understood by hugin — she's flexible like that, no gatekeeping 💅

Output is in square TIFF format with a field of view of 253.7398 degrees 👑 and the reason for that exact number? It places the horizon halfway between the centre and the edge. Math girlies stay winning fr fr 🧚

The output filename is derived automatically from the input filename with -sgraphic.pto appended. No manual naming, she just handles it 🫶

⚠️ heads up bestie: existing .pto files will not be clobbered. But they will be updated when input images change size. So don't be shocked when your old file gets a lil glow-up 💀✨

<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. periodt 💜

🌈 See Also 🌈

  • perl
  • Panotools::Script

go read those too, bestie, they're the supporting cast 🎀

🦋 Author 🦋

Bruno Postle <bruno AT postle.net> — shoutout to the main character who made this happen 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, from the ERECT2PLANET(1) manual 💖 go make urself a tiny planet, you deserve it 🪐✨

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