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Disparity was an iPhone app for stereo viewing local photos. It was pretty good I thought. It hasn't been compatible with phones for a couple of generations now, and is no-longer in the app store.
Basics:
Displays stereo images on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Find it in the iTunes App store.
This is not a photography app and it does not edit images. It converts and displays your MPO files or stereo pairs, allowing you navigate and zoom in stereo.
Credits:
All of the programming was done by Christopher Jones and he retains ownership and final control of it. Contact him with queries and feedback.
I gave advice, and made the icon and the guide images. You are at my site now.
Jim Metcalfe's Photos can be found here on Flickr.
What is Disparity?
It's an iPhone app to let you freeview images on your iPhone or iPod touch, even as you zoom and pan around. You can import JPEG stereo pairs, wide JPEG images, or MPO files direct from a Fujifilm W1 or W3 camera.
Interface
Album List
When you start Disparity, you see this.Create new albums by selecting photos and adding them to a new album name.
Delete albums by the standard iPhone swipe
Three special albums:Guide - A picture guide to some of the main features.
You can't move or delete these photos, but you can delete the whole album.
If you delete Guide, you can restore it via the Settings.
Showcase - A few sample images to get started.
You can't move or delete the photos in Showcase, but you can delete the whole album.
If you delete Showcase, you can restore it via the Settings.
Recently Added - Photos appear here when you import them.
You can not delete this album.
You can turn the main album list sideways to view it in stereo, just as you can with the albums (next section).
Albums
Albums, like the album list, can be viewed in stereo by turning your phone sideways.Parallel or cross depends on which way you turn the phone (controlled in the settings).
The top-right button in portrait mode (not available in stereo) selects photos for moving or deleting.
Tap a photo to view it.
Viewing Photos
The navigation bar appears by default. Tap to show/hide it (just like the default Photos app). Swipe to the next or previous photo (just like the default Photos app).
The separation between the images is in the settings. Above is Narrow, ar left is Medium. The separation helps with some viewers, or just personal preference. You need to exit a photo and come back again to change the separation. It's also important for when you zoom...
Double-tapping zooms-in to (and out of) an image. Images are imported by default at double screen height at most.
If your image is wide, you can also two-finger-tap (tap once using two fingers), to zoom to screen height.
While you're zoomed in, you can pan around in stereo!
While you're zoomed in, you can change the overall image depth by using one finger on each side of the screen and pinching in or out. At any time, you can turn the phone over to switch from cross to parallel.Settings
You can access the Disparity's settings via the Settings app. It's pretty self-explanatory really.
Importing Photos
Importing photos is done via the Apps tab in iTunes. More import options have been discussed as options at Disparity HQ, but it's a tricky thing on iDevices! Import from Photos is planned. For now though:Plug in your iPhone / iPod, and select it at the left in iTunes (same on Windows and Mac).
Choose "Apps"
Select Disparity in the list of apps
Drop your files into the "Disparity Documents" area.
As iTunes copies the files in, you'll see them appear. If Disparity is running it will immediately start converting them.The files will slowly disappear as they are converted to Disparity's internal format. Stereo photos can become very large which is why the originals are not kept. If you want to share or carry your originals, there are many file-storage apps available.
Files will appear in Disparity as they are processed. Processing happens in the background.
Disparity stores images at a maximum of:
640-pixels high per-eye on the iPhone 3G and 3Gs (twice screen height)
1280-pixels-high per-eye on the iPhone 4 and 4S and iPod Touch (twice the screen resolution)
The widths of the images depend on the aspect of them. Images smaller than the maximum height are not changed.
If you were looking for anything that isn't listed here, please write to me to let me know!
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