Check out the Sachin Tendulkar 'Deep Zoom', a user driven collation of images and photographs. And what’s more- You can be a part of Sachin's portrait. Just Upload your photo and once the count reaches 5000 photos, it’ll be part of Sachin’s Deep Zoom. Browse through the Deep Zoom and look for your photo.
Check the Sachin’s Deep Zoom and more details here - http://www.mumbaiindians.com/DeepZoom.aspx
(hattip @baxiabhishek )
Everyone likes reading Comic books. How about reading them on the move on your Windows Phone 7?
Silverlight on Windows Phone also supports DeepZoom thus enabling great navigation and content viewing experiences.It delivers a high res imagery on low bandwidth.It starts with low res and scales in and as user starts panning and zooming in and out, it pulls down the right res. This is very important for phone devices.
At MIX10 Scott Guthrie’s Keynote, Mike Swanson demos Graphic.ly which provides Hi-fidelity Comics reading experience using DeepZoom on Windows Phone.
And there’s some behind the scene info about Mike delivering this session. Actually this session was to be done by Ben Riga but unfortunately, when he was on stage practicing the day before the keynote, he tripped and fell and broke his nose. So at the last minute, Mike Swanson had to step in and did this session.
Check out this Marvel Comics DeepZoom demo on Windows Phone and enjoy !
This session is a part of MIX10 Keynote by Scott Guthrie.
Check out this Tiger mosaic image comprising of hundreds of photos of the many threatened habitats and species around the world. This has been made using Deep Zoom technology.
Please go to http://www.fauna-flora.org/tiger_mosaic.php for the amazing experience. Click and roll your mouse to zoom in or move around the images easily, or use the tool bar.
(Source: @shanselman )
EDIT: Thanks to Steve Clayton , here’s a small video clip of it, but to experience it yourself , please check the above link.
Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, is celebrating its 25year anniversary and has created a Stunning Mosaic called Mosaic 23/25 also known as Social Mosaic. It allows enthusiasts to connect with the Jordan Brand by allowing them to upload photos of themselves with their Air Jordan shoes. And all these photos containing thousands of images form a mosaic.
“Powered by Silverlight 3, the Social Mosaic leverages both Deep Zoom, which provides the ability to interactively view high-resolution images, and Multitouch capabilities. Once the consumer uploads their photo(s), they are sent a photo ID so that they can visit the mosaic to find their photo. Silverlight Deep Zoom allows the consumer to pan and zoom deep into the mosaic to see their picture and experience their own contribution to the Jordan Brand community. With Multitouch, they can interact with the mosaic through touch screen functionality, if supported by their hardware, to further enhance their interactive Jordan Brand experience.
In addition to this innovative user experience, the ability to quickly develop the Social Mosaic and host it in the cloud was of paramount importance to the Jordan Brand team, so they turned to the Windows Azure platform.”
You will have to check the site here to experience this Mosaic magic !
(Source: Silverlight Blog )
Its crunch time at IPL T20 cricket matches, semifinals and finals time. Yesterday was the 1st semifinal, which we all enjoyed the electric innings of Adam Gilchrist.
At the start of the IPL matches , I had twittered and posted about watching all the action LIVE at www.iplt20.com
Now www.iplt20.com has all the Highlight clips, the best Bollywood Moments, Fan Shots, Interviews, Festivities, Wickets, Bowled, Catches, Run Outs, Stumped, LBW, Sixes, Fours, 3rd Umpire Decisions, Highlights Cricket Videos... and lots more apart from streaming LIVE action powered by Microsoft Silverlight.
Also don't forget to check out image galleries available exclusively in high-definition Deep Zoom! Sign-up and Enjoy !
Check out this amazing Christmas Card created with Deep Zoom. This card has been prepared by people at Content Master
Check out the Merry Christmas Card
(Source:Mark Johnston's Blog)
Create your own content with the Deep Zoom Composer or PhotoZoom and view it on your phone. Or just look at the sample content. You can also browse Photosynth collections (yours or anybody else's) with just a flick and a pinch.
Get it FREE from iPhone App Store.
FEATURES:
- View thousands of images over the air
- Quickly view massive gigapixel images
- Explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own
- Add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom Composer content
- Subscribe to Deep Zoom RSS feeds
Released as a tech preview, Seadragon Mobile is designed to show off the 'what if?' of mobile user experiences. Expect more cool stuff from Live Labs in the future at http://livelabs.com.
Check for more details and demo video at http://livelabs.com/blog/seadragon-goes-mobile/
EDIT: Also check this video First Look: Seadragon Mobile from Channel10, where Ben Vanik,creator of this project demos it.
Allan Li from http://nxmix.com/ has created a project codename Mooncake, which can pull photos from flickr or other sites and creates Deep Zoom tile sets from it. (Thanks to Felix Wang for correcting me)
After following the simple steps, it generates code which can be embed in ones blog or sites to display the Deep Zoom tile sets. You can try it at http://mooncake.nxmix.com/
Its still in beta. You can also signup for the same at http://beta.redmooncake.net/
Here are the steps screenshots:
Enter the flickr name, it has support for SmugMug also,
So it will display all the photos from that flickr stream, you choose which one to include and press ‘Next’
It will generate Deep Zoom photos……..
…and provides the code which can be used to embed it in blog as I have done it here. It provides different effects for the photos. Here I have just shown some birds photos, one can try with some high resolution photos to see the full impact of Deep Zoom.
This is what it looks like :
I just changed the dimesnsion to fit in my blog, (source:Autogenerating collections from flickr streams!)Check out this Masterpiece from Donovan West, at http://www.deepzoomobama.com/
This gigapixel (10000x10000) mosaic image was created from over 12,000 thumbnails uploaded by Obama supporters on www.BarackObama.com. It uses Deep Zoom, a cool new technology from Microsoft in Silverlight. To see Deep Zoom really shine, zoom in on Obama's left eye where you will see a thumbnail of Obama waving. Now zoom deep into that 3000x2200 pixel image. Notice the almost magical speed in which the high resolution images are displayed. Well done Donovan.
UPDATE : You want to put that on our blog or website ? Just put the following code,You can change the height and width according to your needs.Works best with Silverlight2 Beta2.
<iframe frameborder='0' scrolling='no'
style='border:solid 1px #999999; width:480px; height:480px'
src="http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/52059/DeepZoomObama/iframe.html">
</iframe>
Here is cool new site of Car maker Renault making use of DeepZoom and Silverlight for the promotion of the Laguna coupé.
Just Zoom them smoothly from a thumbnail to a size where you can view details such as the number plate or even a bolt of the car.
I think this site has not been yet put on the Silverlight Showcase, which is a showcase of next generation experiences using Silverlight.
As announced earlier in TechEd, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available for download. You can Install it from Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta2. It’s a 4.6 MB download. Beta2 adds a lot of new features. You can check out in detail various improvements from ScottGu’s Blog.
You can also check more details about Silverlight at : http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/default.aspx
and http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
Also check :
Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 : This package is an add-on to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2. It can be installed either on top of Visual Studio 2008 RTM or Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Beta, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.
This download will install the following:
For more details check the above link.
Microsoft Silverlight 2 Software Development Kit Beta 2 : This contains documentation, online samples, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight 2 applications.
If you are interested in installing the Silverlight SDK Standalone Documentation then get this:
Microsoft Silverlight2 Software Development Kit Beta 2 Documentation
You can install Silverlight 2 Beta 2 for Developers here.
Along with Silverlight2 beta2 release, comes the release of Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Deep Zoom Composer to take full advantage of Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 release.
