/pannellum

Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web.

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Pannellum

About

Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web. Built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and WebGL, it is plug-in free. It can be deployed easily as a single file, just 15kB gzipped, and then embedded into pages as an <iframe>. A configuration utility is included to generate the required code for embedding.

Documentation

Using with NPM

npm i --save github:saidmoya12/pannellum

Usage of npm module

import pannellum 		from 'pannellum';
...
let viewer = pannellum.viewer('elementID', [configuration]);

Tested with React Node SERVER is not required!

Examples

Examples using both the minified version and the version in the src directory are included in the examples directory.

Browser Compatibility

Since Pannellum is built with recent web standards, it requires a modern browser to function.

Full support (with appropriate graphics drivers):

  • Firefox 10+
  • Chrome 15+
  • Safari 8+
  • Internet Explorer 11+
  • Edge

Almost full support (no full screen):

  • Firefox 4+
  • Chrome 9+

Partial support (WebGL support must first be enabled in preferences)

  • Safari 5.1+

No support:

Internet Explorer 10 and previous

Not officially supported:

Mobile / app frameworks are not officially supported. They may work, but they're not tested and are not the targeted platform.

Translations

All user-facing strings can be changed using the strings configuration parameter. There exists a third-party respository of user-contributed translations that can be used with this configuration option.

Building

using python

The utils folder contains the required build tools, with the exception of Python 3.2+ and Java installations. To build a minified version of Pannellum, run either build.sh or build.bat depending on your platform.

using npm

  1. Clone the repository

  2. In pannellum folder use:

npm install
  1. Enjoy your code

  2. Compile your modifications (Babelify and compression)

npm run build

License

Pannellum is distributed under the MIT License. For more information, read the file COPYING or peruse the license online.

In the past, parts of Pannellum were based on three.js r40, which is licensed under the MIT License.

The panoramic image provided with the examples is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Credits