Pix Image Viewer

Explore thousands of images in a zoomable and pannable grid.

Heavily inspired by Galapix but without the segfaults.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/ENyh2NF

Disclaimer: This is not an official Google product.

Installing

You'll need the rust package manager cargo which can be installed by https://rustup.rs/ or your distributions package management system.

And the following build tools:

clang

The crate is published (occasionally) to https://crates.io/crates/pix-image-viewer and can be installed with:

cargo install pix-image-viewer

Or from github head:

cargo install --git=https://github.com/google/pix-image-viewer.git

Or within the source directory:

cargo install --path=.

Controls

Mouse

| Button | Action | | ------ | ------ | | Left/Right | Zoom in/out. | | Middle | Press and move to pan. |

Keyboard

| Key | Action | | ------ | ------ | | Up/Down/Left/Right | Move the viewport. | | PageUp/PageDown | Zoom in/out. | | T | Toggle panning mode (capture the mouse & cursor moves the viewport). | | F | Toggle fullscreen mode. | | Shift | Hold to zoom and pan in larger increments. |

Limitations

• RocksDB only allows a single process to write to a single database at a time. Due to this, only a single instance will be able to run at a time with the default flags. Use the --db_path=... flag to point new pix instances at unique database locations.

Tech

• Rust stable & friends.
• RocksDB for the image thumbnail cache.
• Piston game framework + OpenGL.
• Rust image decoding/resizing.

Future direction

• Vulkan or gfx-rs? Allows more work off the render & event handling thread.
• Efficient handling of large images? Tiling? [DONE]
• Efficient handling of millions of small images?
• Sort images by directory/size/time?
• Cluster images by directory/size/time?
• Image curation commands (delete, select, etc)?
• Seamless image loading/fetching/thumbnailing. [DONE]
• Command-line thumbnailing mode?
• Push more magic numbers / consts into flags.

And there are many TODOs in the code itself.

Source Code Headers

Every file containing source code must include copyright and license information.

Apache header:

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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