photosynth / offlineviewer

Electron-based app for Windows and Mac to view local Photosynth panoramas and synths

An Electron-based app for Windows, OS X, and Linux to view offline Photosynths and panoramas

Build Instructions

Install Node.js with NPM. Run the following inside this directory

npm install
npm run release

After building, the installer will be in the dist directory. A portable distribution will be there as well.

Folder Structure

app/synth contains the photosynth viewer

app/pano/jspanoviewer.js contains the panorama viewer

app/zip_server.js contains the code for reading from zip files

offlineviewer's Issues

Using files extracted from iPhone

I'm writing this here as I don't know where else to ask:

Unfortunately I have not downloaded my files in time.

I do have the app still on my phone, and just copied all the synths to my PC.

Do you have any idea how I can view/transform the folders with the syncs to .pano or to some other format?

I have a folder called deepzoom where all of the pano files are contained.

Phototourism - legacy app

Once upon a time in photosynth's history there used to be a way to visualise boxes on top of the viewer. You could effectively navigate the world by moving the mouse and clicking (as opposed to clumsily dragging / or pressing a play button).
I loved this user interaction / even though the current viewer removed the lines / boxes to make it more of a 3d world - the clicking gave instant gratification as the photos were always focussed and sharp - is there any chance this older viewer could be resurrected?

This may seem like a step back - but for what I want to do - (make a choose your own adventure style game + narrative ) this more old fashion viewer was great.
I guess the server side rendering of point clouds destroyed this stuff? or is there a way to turn it back on? thanks in advance

Extraction method for photos on the phone Apps?

In order for this to be useful (going forward) it would be great to allow us to continue to use the phone app and/or extract existing photos. Is there any plan or knowledge about how this could be accomplished?