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Boomport wrote:

Hard to call it everywhere when you don't support unix/linux flavors

jsampsonPC wrote:

I'd hate to see Soapbox become just like the other video-sharing sites and have nothing more than young women shaking their breasts around in a suggestive manner.

Ion Todirel wrote:



Mr. Beckman wrote: We want to turn Visual Basic into not only the best and most popular programming language in the world but the most advanced programming language in the world.

right, there are not such thing as "the best programming language"! Microsoft Research guys should know this better that anyone, advanced... would be nice to explain how... and sience C#/VB share same runtime how VB can be more advanced than C# ?

jsampsonPC wrote:



mawcc wrote:  jsampsonPC wrote: Is Blaise online as a Niner? I am still wondering how exactly it shows "versions?" of the images as you zoom in and out, if it's drawing from a single image...does it only display a portion of the image's binary? I can only guess, but I think that's exactly what's happening. When zoomed out, you only need to load e.g. every 10th pixel of the image. If you zoom in a little you have to add e.g. every 5th pixel and so on, until you are on zoom level 1:1 which displays all pixels. At the same time the portion of the image in view gets smaller and smaller, so the overall amount of data that has to be in memory basically stays the same. So you either see all of the image in low resolution or a small portion of the image in high resolution. The tricky parts of course are to decide when to load what and how to do it quickly.

But the amount of data cannot stay the same over the entire experience. He's got, roughly 100, pictures on his screen. As he moves any one of them to a higher Z-index, that picture  has to display more and more of it's full binary-value. As he moves it to a lesser Z-index, it displays less of its binary-data. That would require the user to first traverse through its entire binary-source, select only what the user needs to keep in memory for that moment, and then display the selected information. However, if you're going to be zooming in and out rapidly, then it would be best to have the entire pictures memory in cache, but then, you would need EVERY picture's highest-resolution binary-value in cache always, to be able to rapidly navigate from one picture to the other, and quickly modify the z-index of any given image...that simply cannot work, it would utterly kill your processing speed.

How the heck is he doing this!? Blaise! Come to my rescue!

I wonder if someone has already thought about combining this with Microsoft Max. That would be an interesting new twist on the whole 3D presentation stuff.
Though the problem with Max currently is that there haven't been new versions for a very long time. It once started as a showcase application for WPF, but according to the Max forum people are very upset that the last supported WinFX CTP is the January(!) CTP.

jsampsonPC wrote:

Is Blaise online as a Niner?

I am still wondering how exactly it shows "versions?" of the images as you zoom in and out, if it's drawing from a single image...does it only display a portion of the image's binary?