Deep Zoom

The Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) is a tool created by Microsoft Research which can be used to create panoramic images. It’s essentially the same technology that Windows Live Photo Gallery uses “under the hood” when you create panoramic photos in the software (just like Alexa does in the…

This turned out to be a pretty design-centric episode.  Quince the new UX Design Pattern Explorer launched, Illustrator to XAML plug-in is ready to be tested, Alex Knight a XAML Designer is featured and Stimulant shows off their Surface skills. Stories covered in this episode…

It is not everyday that the best sailors on the planet set up shop 150 metres from your work and race each other over a two week period but that is exactly what is happening for me right now. Check out http://lvps09.com and watch this screencast to learn more . A few things in the end made this…

How cool is this? The guys over at LiveSide uncovered Felix Wang’s not-so-secret project called Mooncake, which brings DeepZoom capabilities to the photo-sharing sites Flickr and SmugMug. Similar to Microsoft Live Labs’ own PhotoZoom, Mooncake can generate a deep zoomable photo album of your…

Seadragon é a plataforma por trás das minhas tecnologias preferidas – Deep Zoom do Silverlight, Photosynth e até Windows 7 e Surface. Essa plataforma permite que você visualize imagens gigantescas (gigapixels) sem o mínimo esforço do seu computador. Agora o pessoal do Live Labs, o braço de pesquisa…

You may remember DeepEarth, an open source community effort that demonstrates the DeepZoom functionality of Silverlight. Now, the demo site for DeepEarth has been updated to include an enhanced user interface and the addition of a few new services. Along with the original Virtual Earth data, you…

Eu não canso do Deep Zoom e quis publicar mais um vídeo mostrando essa tecnologia excepcional. Temos um exemplo clássico (Hard Rock Café), e dois novos: 700 capas de jornais no dia após a eleição do Barack Obama; Renault utilizando mais uma vez o Deep Zoom para o lançamento de um novo carro. O que…

Last week we saw the release of Silverlight 2, the latest and greatest version of the browser plugin designed for rich media experiences on the web. Since that time, a number of related technologies have also been updated to work with Silverlight 2. These include the following: Deep Zoom…

If you love Deepzoomable stuff as much as I do, you'll love this. The latest example of Silverlight’s cool DeepZoom technology can be found in action here on a poster created to “capture the organized chaos that is website design and development.” (Well, at least that’s what it does according to…

Se você usa o Windows Live Galeria de Fotos então você deve conhecer a função de criar fotos panorâmicas. Se você ainda não usou, basta selecionar algumas fotos que são do mesmo local, clicar no botão Criar e depois no botão Criar foto panorâmica. É uma função realmente muito bacana, você pode ver…