Stereographic Projection

Circular sterographic projection, based on Ben Kreunen equirectangular example

stereographic is an alternative fisheye Projection which is conformal, making it more suitable for printing than standard fisheye images which are extremely distorted at the edges.

All versions of the pano12 library since 2.8.1 have supported this and some other novel projections. Various GUI front-ends[*] including hugin and PTAssembler[*] now support it directly.

• mathworld on stereographic projection
• wikipedia:Stereographic projection[*]

Comparison with standard fisheye

Example of a standard fisheye, Medinet Habu first courtyard

Example of a stereographic image, Medinet Habu first courtyard

Stereographic 'little planet' images

Little planet[*] images are a nice way to represent a spherical scene without requiring a panorama viewer[*], stereographic is generally superior to standard fisheye Projection for these images.

standard fisheye little planet

sterographic little planet