Everything you ever wanted to know about Panorama, and never dared to ask:
What is Panorama?	Panorama is a framework for 3D graphics production. It is part of the GNU project. You can get more information in the README file.
Who did it?	Originally by Angel Jimenez Jimenez and Carlos Jimenez Moreno, with contributions from many others. It is currently maintained by Kevin Harris.
What can it do?	Take a look at some sample images at the gallery.
Can I distribute it?	Yes. Panorama has been put under GPL license.
Can I help?	If you have any interest in doing so, we can surely use your help. Much of the documentation has yet to be written. Many bugs may exist. Tons of algorithms have yet to be implemented. If you are a programmer, check out the developers page.
Where can I get it?	You can take a look out the compatibility page to check compatibility before download, or just follow this link to download it. Latest version is 0.18.01. For the latest additions, get the current version from CVS, or get the development branch (panorama_0_19).
What plans do you have for the future?	We just want to make this the best environment for modeling, rendering and animation. More info about what we are doing now in the development page.
Is there any mailing list?	We have a number of email lists, however their direct use is now discouraged, due to all too frequent spamming. Please use the sourceforge-provided forums for general discussion, the bug tracking/sumbission page, the support request page, or the feature request page instead.
Whoah! What is this terminology you are using?	You can find our glossary in the doc/GLOSSARY.html file. Hopefully, we can keep this updated.

NEWS

18Sep2003: The Panorama web page at www.gnu.org was changed to refresh to this page. Hopefully, we will finally get some traffic here. Increased traffic may lead to increased motivation.
06Sep2003: Changed the list of GNU based mailing lists to links for bugs, support, features, and general forums.
13Feb2003: Work has begun on updating the web pages. Developers may now access/modify them through CVS. All web pages here will be automatically updated just after midnight every night, from any changes in CVS. NOTE: to make changes to any of the docs (doc/*), it must be done from the main source checkout. Only the web pages are contained in the web_pages checkout.
11Feb2003: Version 0.18.01 released. Libtool is now being used.
03Feb2003: Quadrics were added to the development version. They are currently considered experimental.
30Dec2002: New administrator for panorama.
21Nov2002: Version 0.18 released (however, it was not available at sourceforge until 31Dec2002). Work on version 0.19 has begun in CVS (try adding -rpanorama-0_19 to your CVS checkout command line).
26Apr2001: The ancient web pages were modified/copied to their new location at Sourceforge, where the CVS tree has been hosted since mid-2000.
25Apr2001: Addition of a thin-lens camera (focal blur is now possible) by Kevin Harris (currently available only in CVS).
05Oct2000: Addition of area lights (visible light sources, soft shadows, etc. are now possible) by Kevin Harris. Also, some scene format changes were made. Check it out of CVS for the latest version.
10Aug2000: Major changes to the textures by Jon Frydensbjerg.
?????2000: Version 0.14 released.
21Aug1999: New release. Version is 0.13.2.
08Jul1999: Added new mirror for download
06Jul1999: New release. Version is 0.13.1.
29Jun1999: New release. Version is 0.13.
14Jun1999: New screenshot for the GUI (this time using GNOME/themes)
14Jun1999: New release of Panorama GUI. Version is 0.0.5 (it needs Panorama 0.12).
02Jun1999: New release. Version is 0.12.
18May1999: New release. Version is 0.11.2.
26Apr1999: New release. Version is 0.11.1.
08Apr1999: New release. Version is 0.11.
10Nov1998: New release. Version is 0.10.1.
26Oct1998: Added info about the mailing lists.
22Oct1998: Added new project (bicubic Bezier patches). See developers page.
11Oct1998: Added alternative download site.
10Oct1998: Added screenshot of the graphic interface.
09Oct1998: Panorama graphic interface released. Version is 0.0.3.
09Oct1998: New release of Panorama. Version is 0.10.0.
09Oct1998: Web pages translated to www.gnu.org. We are now part of the GNU project.
10Jul1998: New pages about our current work. Check out development page.
10Jul1998: New release of Panorama. Version is 0.9.1.
24May1998: New release of Panorama. Version is 0.9.0.
19May1998: Added new example image. Take a look at the end of the gallery page).
19May1998: Added new links (GTK, Siggraph 98 & GI'98 papers). See links page).
04May1998: Added new project (rendering GUI). See developers page).
29Apr1998: Added links page. See developers page.
27Apr1998: Added new project (fast renderer using Mesa). See developers page).
27Apr1998: Updated developers documentation (see developers page).
26Apr1998: First public alpha release of Panorama. Version is 0.8.0a.

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