Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Seadragon Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Seadragon http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/seadragon Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/seadragon en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:31:28 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:31:28 GMT Rev9 11 1 25 Seadragon Ajax Control - Quick Start Guide 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 app using the new control.

This screencast walks you through how to do the whole thing from beginning to end.

Links you need

·         Download Deep Zoom Composer

·         Download ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit

Also of interest:

·         Live Labs Seadragon Homepage
·         How Deep Zoom works

·         DeepZoomPix Service

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jsenior/Seadragon-Ajax-Control-Quick-Start-Guide 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 app using the new control. This screencast walks you through how to do the whole thing from beginning to end. Links you need ·         Download Deep Zoom Composer ·         Download ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit Also of interest: ·         Live Labs Seadragon Homepage·         How Deep Zoom works ·         DeepZoomPix Service 658 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jsenior/Seadragon-Ajax-Control-Quick-Start-Guide Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:42:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jsenior/Seadragon-Ajax-Control-Quick-Start-Guide James Senior James Senior 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jsenior/Seadragon-Ajax-Control-Quick-Start-Guide/RSS Ajax Ajax Control Toolkit Deep Zoom Seadragon The Whole World's Family Tree in Seadragon 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 fact, there are only around 8K+ some users right now according to the link at the top of the page. However, AppleTree has some very cool features so if they ever gain traction, it will definitely be a fun site to use and explore.

The site is built using Seadragon Ajax which lets you zoom and pan around the entire family tree which is accessible right from the homepage, even if you’re not signed up for an AppleTree account. Seadragon is also used to display the photo galleries containing the images uploaded by the site’s users.

There’s no fee to use AppleTree, so if you want to start adding your relatives to the list, you can sign up now.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-Whole-Worlds-Family-Tree-in-Seadragon 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 fact, there are only around 8K+ some users right now according to the link at the top of the page. However, AppleTree has some very cool features so if they ever gain traction, it will definitely be a fun site to use and explore.The site is built using Seadragon Ajax which lets you zoom and pan around the entire family tree which is accessible right from the homepage, even if you’re not signed up for an AppleTree account. Seadragon is also used to display the photo galleries containing the images uploaded by the site’s users.There’s no fee to use AppleTree, so if you want to start adding your relatives to the list, you can sign up now. (via Dragonosticism) http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-Whole-Worlds-Family-Tree-in-Seadragon Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:10:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-Whole-Worlds-Family-Tree-in-Seadragon Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-Whole-Worlds-Family-Tree-in-Seadragon/RSS Seadragon Seadragon.com Goes Live Seadragon, you can now point the web service to your massive image (hosted on your site or any number of services) and it will be create a Deep Zoom image that you can then share through email, Twitter, Facebook, or embed on a site.

Keep in mind you can use the Deep Zoom Composer to make your own Deep Zoom images locally if that's how you roll. Or you can use DeepZoomPix.com (until December 31st 2009) if you want a place to host your Deep Zoom images. You can also upload your big pictures to PhotoSynth, which will turn them into Deep Zoom images (and try to connect them, so not the preferred way to manage disparate images). But for large images that are already online, Seadragon.com is the perfect tool for creating a window to the larger image. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live 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 massive image (hosted on your site or any number of services) and it will be create a Deep Zoom image that you can then share through email, Twitter, Facebook, or embed on a site. Keep in mind you can use the Deep Zoom Composer to make your own Deep Zoom images locally if that's how you roll. Or you can use DeepZoomPix.com (until December 31st 2009) if you want a place to host your Deep Zoom images. You can also upload your big pictures to PhotoSynth, which will turn them into Deep Zoom images (and try to connect them, so not the preferred way to manage disparate images). But for large images that are already online, Seadragon.com is the perfect tool for creating a window to the larger image. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:47:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live/RSS Deep Zoom Photography Seadragon Seadragon.com Goes Live Seadragon, you can now point the web service to your massive image (hosted on your site or any number of services) and it will be create a Deep Zoom image that you can then share through email, Twitter, Facebook, or embed on a site. Seadragon.com runs on the CTP version of Windows Azure that's available to all of you today.

Keep in mind you can use the Deep Zoom Composer to make your own Deep Zoom images locally if that's how you roll. Or you can use DeepZoomPix.com (until December 31st 2009) if you want a place to host your Deep Zoom images. You can also upload your big pictures to PhotoSynth, which will turn them into Deep Zoom images (and try to connect them, so not the preferred way to manage disparate images). But for large images that are already online, Seadragon.com is the perfect tool for creating a window to the larger image.

Here's where to see the Seadragon in the screenshot. http://www.seadragon.com/view/6x ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live 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 massive image (hosted on your site or any number of services) and it will be create a Deep Zoom image that you can then share through email, Twitter, Facebook, or embed on a site. Seadragon.com runs on the CTP version of Windows Azure that's available to all of you today. Keep in mind you can use the Deep Zoom Composer to make your own Deep Zoom images locally if that's how you roll. Or you can use DeepZoomPix.com (until December 31st 2009) if you want a place to host your Deep Zoom images. You can also upload your big pictures to PhotoSynth, which will turn them into Deep Zoom images (and try to connect them, so not the preferred way to manage disparate images). But for large images that are already online, Seadragon.com is the perfect tool for creating a window to the larger image. Here's where to see the Seadragon in the screenshot. http://www.seadragon.com/view/6x http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:48:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Seadragoncom-Goes-Live/RSS Azure Deep Zoom Photography Seadragon The World Digital Library: An Amazing & Educational Seadragon-based Site 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, and architectural drawings. These are collected and place on a world map where they can be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution. You can also use the timeline at the bottom of the map to scroll forward and backward through the ages to see the different documents available.

The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress and uses Seadragon Ajax to display the items on the map. To check out the documents from any region in the world, just click on that region to see the list of items available, which can be further narrowed down using the options in the sidebar on the left which let you specify time, topic, etc.

You won’t see Seadragon in action, though, until you click on an individual item. Then you’ll be able zoom in and out on the image, go full screen, flip through pages, or even download it as a zip file. This is an amazing way to explore old documents that you would never have been able to see otherwise. For example, check out this map of “La Florida,” my home state (Florida), created back in 1584. You can find something from your part of the world by exploring the different regions on this page.

Overall, the WDL is really cool site and definitely worth exploring.

(via Dragonosticism)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-World-Digital-Library-An-Amazing--Educational-Seadragon-based-Site 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, and architectural drawings. These are collected and place on a world map where they can be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution. You can also use the timeline at the bottom of the map to scroll forward and backward through the ages to see the different documents available.The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress and uses Seadragon Ajax to display the items on the map. To check out the documents from any region in the world, just click on that region to see the list of items available, which can be further narrowed down using the options in the sidebar on the left which let you specify time, topic, etc. You won’t see Seadragon in action, though, until you click on an individual item. Then you’ll be able zoom in and out on the image, go full screen, flip through pages, or even download it as a zip file. This is an amazing way to explore old documents that you would never have been able to see otherwise. For example, check out this map of “La Florida,” my home state (Florida), created back in 1584. You can find something from your part of the world by exploring the different regions on this page. Overall, the WDL is really cool site and definitely worth exploring. (via Dragonosticism) http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-World-Digital-Library-An-Amazing--Educational-Seadragon-based-Site Tue, 12 May 2009 16:05:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-World-Digital-Library-An-Amazing--Educational-Seadragon-based-Site Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/The-World-Digital-Library-An-Amazing--Educational-Seadragon-based-Site/RSS Seadragon Visualizing Last.fm with Seadragon 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 of different sizes. The colors relate to the genre of music – rock, pop, metal, rap, classical, hip-hop, electronic, etc. Two search boxes at the top of the map let you enter in either an artist’s name to see where they fall on the map or the name of a Last.fm user to see what sort of music they like. Doing either search will actually place pushpins on the colored circles for easy identification.

This app is also featured in the Seadragon Gallery over on the Live Labs site, but that one isn’t searchable. If you’re into visualizations, though, the Live Labs Seadragon gallery is worth checking out –there are some pretty amazing visualizations embedded over there.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Visualizing-Lastfm-with-Seadragon 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 of different sizes. The colors relate to the genre of music – rock, pop, metal, rap, classical, hip-hop, electronic, etc. Two search boxes at the top of the map let you enter in either an artist’s name to see where they fall on the map or the name of a Last.fm user to see what sort of music they like. Doing either search will actually place pushpins on the colored circles for easy identification. This app is also featured in the Seadragon Gallery over on the Live Labs site, but that one isn’t searchable. If you’re into visualizations, though, the Live Labs Seadragon gallery is worth checking out –there are some pretty amazing visualizations embedded over there. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Visualizing-Lastfm-with-Seadragon Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:13:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Visualizing-Lastfm-with-Seadragon Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Visualizing-Lastfm-with-Seadragon/RSS Seadragon Visualization Last.fm Seadragon + GigaPan 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 and explored. Recently, some folks have begun doing even more interesting things with the GigaPan technology – they’ve been combining it with Microsoft Seadragon.

Take, for example, Jason of Odyssey Expeditions, who created this Seadragon Ajax viewer for GigaPan images. It’s still being worked on, but it’s pretty cool. There’s also Daniel Gasienica’s pipeline for loading up GigaPan images into the new Seadragon Mobile iPhone app. Just enter http://gigapan-mobile.appspot.com/feed/ as an RSS feed in the Seadragon Mobile app to see his GigaPan images – one being David Bergman’s Obama inauguration photo, of course.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Seadragon--GigaPan 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 and explored. Recently, some folks have begun doing even more interesting things with the GigaPan technology – they’ve been combining it with Microsoft Seadragon. Take, for example, Jason of Odyssey Expeditions, who created this Seadragon Ajax viewer for GigaPan images. It’s still being worked on, but it’s pretty cool. There’s also Daniel Gasienica’s pipeline for loading up GigaPan images into the new Seadragon Mobile iPhone app. Just enter http://gigapan-mobile.appspot.com/feed/ as an RSS feed in the Seadragon Mobile app to see his GigaPan images – one being David Bergman’s Obama inauguration photo, of course.(via dragonosticism) http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Seadragon--GigaPan Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Seadragon--GigaPan Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Seadragon--GigaPan/RSS Photo Photography Photos Seadragon Gigapixel Seadragon para iPhone 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 e desenvolvimento da Microsoft para tecnologias Web, lançou uma versão para celulares. Detalhe, a primeira versão é para iPhone e está disponível de graça na App Store do iPhone.

Para usar essa tecnologia, a maneira mais rápida é fazer um upload de suas fotos para o serviço do Photosynth. As fotos não precisam seguir as regras do Photosynth para recriar a figura 3D, pois estamos usando o Photosynth como um álbum virtual nesse caso. No Seadragon Mobile você fará um login e aparecerão os seus álbuns do Photosynth e você também pode adicionar as coleções de outros usuários do Photosynth.

Tem duas coisas que acho importantes nessa notícia. Primeiro, o Live Labs está realizando seu propósito de existência – inovação rápida e impactante para a Web. Segundo, mostra a cara da nova Microsoft, já que a primeira versão dessa tecnologia foi disponibilizada para o iPhone. Veja o post oficial sobre o Seadragon para Mobile onde há um vídeo de demonstração. Meu colega Larry Larsen entrevistou o criador dessa versão do Seadragon, o Ben Vanik do Live Labs. Ah, outro detalhe, essa invenção surgiu do tempo livre que cada pesquisador do Live Labs tem para inventar coisas sem objetivos concretos.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Seadragon-para-celulares 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 e desenvolvimento da Microsoft para tecnologias Web, lançou uma versão para celulares. Detalhe, a primeira versão é para iPhone e está disponível de graça na App Store do iPhone. Para usar essa tecnologia, a maneira mais rápida é fazer um upload de suas fotos para o serviço do Photosynth. As fotos não precisam seguir as regras do Photosynth para recriar a figura 3D, pois estamos usando o Photosynth como um álbum virtual nesse caso. No Seadragon Mobile você fará um login e aparecerão os seus álbuns do Photosynth e você também pode adicionar as coleções de outros usuários do Photosynth. Tem duas coisas que acho importantes nessa notícia. Primeiro, o Live Labs está realizando seu propósito de existência – inovação rápida e impactante para a Web. Segundo, mostra a cara da nova Microsoft, já que a primeira versão dessa tecnologia foi disponibilizada para o iPhone. Veja o post oficial sobre o Seadragon para Mobile onde há um vídeo de demonstração. Meu colega Larry Larsen entrevistou o criador dessa versão do Seadragon, o Ben Vanik do Live Labs. Ah, outro detalhe, essa invenção surgiu do tempo livre que cada pesquisador do Live Labs tem para inventar coisas sem objetivos concretos. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Seadragon-para-celulares Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Seadragon-para-celulares Galileu Vieira Galileu Vieira 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Seadragon-para-celulares/RSS Deep Zoom iphone Live Labs PhotoSynth Seadragon Silverlight Surface First Look: Seadragon Mobile 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 Library of Congress maps from the TED demo, a two-billion by two-billion pixel map of the world -but you can also load custom content via a RSS feed. If you want to take the easy way out just upload your massive images to Photosynth or PhotoZoom. Seadragon Mobile isn't a Photosynth viewer, per se. It shows all the photos in a synth in flat tiled form, allowing you to zoom in and out effortlessly. So in this instance you use Photosynth like a container.

Now for the part that may make your head asplode; this release is coming out for the iPhone first.

/duck ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/First-Look-Seadragon-Mobile 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 Library of Congress maps from the TED demo, a two-billion by two-billion pixel map of the world -but you can also load custom content via a RSS feed. If you want to take the easy way out just upload your massive images to Photosynth or PhotoZoom. Seadragon Mobile isn't a Photosynth viewer, per se. It shows all the photos in a synth in flat tiled form, allowing you to zoom in and out effortlessly. So in this instance you use Photosynth like a container. Now for the part that may make your head asplode; this release is coming out for the iPhone first. /duck 239 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/First-Look-Seadragon-Mobile Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:59:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/First-Look-Seadragon-Mobile Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/First-Look-Seadragon-Mobile/RSS Mobile PhotoSynth Seadragon PhotoZoom Combines Deep Zoom and Silverlight 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.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/PhotoZoom-Combines-Deep-Zoom-and-Silverlight 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&amp;album=X View the page source and find the following: &quot;silverlight.services.live.com&quot;Copy the entire iframe code, which will look something like this: &lt;iframe src=http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/14030/&lt;string&gt;/iframe.html&nbsp; originalAttribute=&quot;src&quot; originalPath=&quot;http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/14030/&lt;string&gt;/iframe.html&nbsp;&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; 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. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/PhotoZoom-Combines-Deep-Zoom-and-Silverlight Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:25:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/PhotoZoom-Combines-Deep-Zoom-and-Silverlight Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/PhotoZoom-Combines-Deep-Zoom-and-Silverlight/RSS Seadragon DeepZoom Photosynth and Seadragon offer a glimpse at the next great UI If you’ve seen Minority Report and watched with glee as Tom Cruise effortlessly navigates piles of media with lightning speed using only his hands, you’ll immediately recognize Seadragon. Blaise Aguera y Arcas and the team at Windows Live Labs have created an engine for managing large collections of images effortlessly. Through their own special brand of hot sauce, the team has been able to build software that loads only the pieces of large images that it needs at any moment in time. This breakthrough allows the user to experience their collections of images instantly. By adding Photosynth to the recipe, the team is able to stitch images together and determine the three dimensional space where pictures were taken.

When the power of Seadragon and Photosynth are combined with images from many different sources, the potential applications become very exciting. Fusing the photos of a particular location taken by multiple people, geo-data can be learned as opposed to manually entered. Now if only we could merge these technologies with some gloves with glowing fingers…

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Photosynth-and-Seadragon-offer-a-glimpse-at-the-next-great-UI If you’ve seen Minority Report and watched with glee as Tom Cruise effortlessly navigates piles of media with lightning speed using only his hands, you’ll immediately recognize Seadragon. Blaise Aguera y Arcas and the team at Windows Live Labs have created an engine for managing large collections of images effortlessly. Through their own special brand of hot sauce, the team has been able to build software that loads only the pieces of large images that it needs at any moment in time. This breakthrough allows the user to experience their collections of images instantly. By adding Photosynth to the recipe, the team is able to stitch images together and determine the three dimensional space where pictures were taken.When the power of Seadragon and Photosynth are combined with images from many different sources, the potential applications become very exciting. Fusing the photos of a particular location taken by multiple people, geo-data can be learned as opposed to manually entered. Now if only we could merge these technologies with some gloves with glowing fingers…&nbsp; 995 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Photosynth-and-Seadragon-offer-a-glimpse-at-the-next-great-UI Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:30:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Photosynth-and-Seadragon-offer-a-glimpse-at-the-next-great-UI JD Lewin JD Lewin 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jesse/Photosynth-and-Seadragon-offer-a-glimpse-at-the-next-great-UI/RSS CES PhotoSynth Seadragon Seattle Technology