Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Seadragon: zoom deeply in the world of Ajax
Bertrand Le Roy pointed me to Seadragon Ajax, a JavaScript client that gives you deep zoom (think: Google Maps) ability in short order.
To build the thing itself you use Deep Zoom Composer and then you choose whether you want the Silverlight version or this Ajax one.
The embed viewer is easy to use too.
4.3 rating from 49 votes
Dang, that feels slick even on my slow-assed internet connection. Very nicely done.
Doesn’t feel so slick on my dual-core system 2gb Ram :p
but very very impressive!!!!!
ho i think it gets stuck cause of the ajax that gets the images makes it this way :) should have made a smart algorithm for this case..or something
Looks like canvas loading 256×256 JPEG tiles, and scaling accordingly for transitioning between “zoom levels”. The 2.1-gigapixel Yosemite panorama is a pretty nice demo, zoom in on the waterfall for example.
Wow…!
Impressive Microsoft :)
I wouldn’t believe you guys would ever create something which destroyed your main USP of Silverlight. ;)
Great work…
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Are these the winds of change or just “facades” to try to convert people like me…?
I’m still not a believer, but this did put me a little bit closer… ;)
Quite impressive and creative. Did I say creative? wait this is M$… ok M$ spill the beans, where did you guys copy this from?
Its a very nice tool.. only downside is being forced to use a gui / windows only tool for the image pyramid creation. i went ahead and created a cross platform python solution script/library for the creation process. its linked from here
For those of you who refuse to touch anything from Micro$oft, there is an open source alternative! – IIPImage, which has already been featured on Ajaxian
Holy inline style! Still, looks pretty smooth.
impressive. love the code and idea to finish it.
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Very interesting and exciting priposition, need to consider!
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