Seadragon

Bertrand has just written a great post about our new Seadragon Ajax Control which we launched today as part of the Ajax Control Toolkit.  I spent some time today going through the process of creating a Zeep Zoom Composer project from one of my photos and then bringing it into a web…

Scott Mueller has launched an ambitious site called AppleTree which aims to map out the family tree of the world in order to show you how you’re related to everyone. That’s right, everyone in the whole wide world. The site is brand-new, so of course the world’s population isn’t on there yet – in…

Huge images on the web just haven't been fun in the past. Between the downloading, the snapping from scaled to full-size, and navigating around, it's just not the experience that high def images should have. Well that's about to change. Using Seadragon, you can now point the web service to your…

Huge images on the web just haven't been fun in the past. Between the downloading, the snapping from scaled to full-size, and navigating around, it's just not the experience that high def images should have. Well that's about to change. Using Seadragon, you can now point the web service to your…

The World Digital Library is a site that makes significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world available for free of charge. By “primary materials,” they mean cultural treasures like manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs,…

I just came across a very cool application which uses Microsoft’s Seadragon technology to create an interactive visualization of Last.fm users and the music they like. The app, over on Tamas Nepusz’s web site, displays all the different artists on the Last.fm web site as differently colored circles…

You probably heard about GigaPan recently – maybe for the first time, if you weren’t already a photo enthusiast – thanks to this widely shared and discussed image from the Obama inauguration. The GigaPan technology creates high-res gigapixel panoramic images which can then be zoomed in and out on…

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…

Ben Vanik invited me over to Live Labs to see a hobby project he took on in his spare time running Seadragon on a mobile phone. Seadragon is the juice behind Photosynth and DeepZoom (If you need a refresher course on Seadragon, head on over to TED.) You can browse several collections- the…

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…