Entries tagged with deepzoom - Channel 10

Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Project

sarahintampa — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:26:00 GMT

The Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project began last year as a way to create a snapshot in time of the present-day geologic conditions at Yosemite National Park. Using gigapixel imagery, the goal was to construct a large scale image of the valley walls in high detail. The end result would aid research in the area of rockfall activity as well as become an asset to the park’s search and rescue operations. The shooting began in May of this year. To get the images, 70 photographers are hiking through the park with robotic cameras in tow which are positioned by GPS coordinates to take the shot. They even communicate via radio to synchronize when the shot is to be taken. Scoble has video about this project here.

Now Adam Kinney is reporting that the Silverlight Deep Zoom version of this site is live. Using the Deep Zoom feature built into Silverlight, you can zoom in and out of 45 gigapixels worth of Yosemite Park data. You have to try this! Go here. It’s incredible.

Oh and, Doug, you wanted to know where all the dope Silverlight demos were? Ha. We’ve got applications.

P.S. Tafiti and the Hard Rock Memorabilia site aren’t bad examples either.

DeepZooming into (US) Tax Dollars

Larry — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:25:00 GMT

DeepZoom really shines in showing a large amount of information. To get a sense of this, check out Jess Bachman's Death and Taxes poster. This ginormous infographic shows you where much of the US Federal budget will go in 2009. By using a mouse with a scrollwheel, you can fluidly move in and out of the graphic, digging around through branches and departments of the government.

Jess stopped by recently and told us about how it started, how long it takes to make, his 800-layer Photoshop file, and his Martha Stewart appearance. You can explore the poster in Silverlight here and get the print poster at WallStats.com.

PhotoZoom Facebook App

sarahintampa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:00 GMT

PhotoZoom, the web site that leverages the new Deep Zoom technology which makes your photos "zoomable" now has a Facebook app all of its own. The PhotoZoom application lets you create Facebook photo albums that use this Deep Zoom technology. You can choose to convert your existing albums to PhotoZoom albums or just create new ones. After you add the app, you'll be taken to the PhotoZoom site to get started. Very cool! (via LiveSide)

PhotoZoom Combines Deep Zoom and Silverlight

sarahintampa — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:25:00 GMT

We recently mentioned how you could make your own Deep Zoom using the Deep Zoom Composer. Now comes and even easier way. With PhotoZoom, a new web-based service, you can easily create albums either by uploading photos from your PC or by importing photos from an RSS feed, like perhaps the one you have at a photo-sharing site like flickr.

Then, using PhotoZoom, you can create albums from a set of photos where your set becomes a collage, built with Silverlight, that you can pan around and zoom in and out of, just like the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia site.

You can email your album to a friend, or, thanks to the guys at LiveSide, you can embed it on your own site by following these 3 steps:

View your zooming album on PhotoZoom, so that the url reads: photozoom.mslivelabs.com/Album.aspx?alias=XXX&album=X
View the page source and find the following: "silverlight.services.live.com"
Copy the entire iframe code, which will look something like this:
<iframe src=http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/14030/<string>/iframe.html originalAttribute="src" originalPath="http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/14030/<string>/iframe.html "
scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="800" height="600"></iframe>

You can customize the width and height as required, then just paste your code into your own website/blog etc.

See an embedded PhotoZoom in action here.