A new iteration of the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight is now available for download. The tool went live at the end of the past week on the Microsoft Download Center and is currently up for grabs, delivering a variety of improvements compared to previous releases. Back in mid-February 2009, Microsoft requested feedback on the future development of the Deep Zoom Composers inviting users and developers to indicate what they would want to see in upcoming versions of the solution. The June 2009 preview of the Download Zoom Composer is built by integrating the input received by the company.
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Deep Zoom Composer, Blend 4 Silverlight. (Step by Step) on how to incorporate a Deep Zoom Export into a Blend 4 Silverlight project? Clifford Darrett. Also it seems that the Deep Zoom Composer project is almost dead (also due to the death of Silverlight). In the next beta release I was already going to remove that feature from AndreaMosaic, unless there is a good reason to maintain/improve that part.
What Deep Zoom Composer generates for you is a couple of different things. First it will create a folder called “GeneratedImages”. This folder contains hundreds of images that Silverlight will request and combine when a user is using the Deep Zoom application. Inside this folder is also a file called “dzcoutput.xml”. Shell script (Linux/Mac) DZI: Node.js Deep Zoom Tools: Node.js, under construction: DZI: OpenSeaDragon DZI Online Composer: Web app (and PERL and PHP scripts) DZI: PHP Deep Zoom Tools: PHP: DZI: PyramidIO: Java (command line and library) DZI: Sharp: Node.js, uses VIPS: DZI: VIPS: command line tool and library for a number of languages: DZI via. Yes, it is possible to generate deep zoom files on the fly. Obviously, this has to happen on the server-side, for the client-side Silverlight app to consume it. The google keywords you're looking for is 'deep zoom batch' or 'deep zoom export' or 'DeepZoomTools.dll'. This is not an officially supported scenario (afaik), but it is definitely.
“Navigation Support - a common request has been around doing more with your Deep Zoom images than just being able to zoom in and out on them. In this release, we have introduced some cool navigation features which allow you to navigate between images or areas of images in a web/hyperlink-like fashion. You can also link images to external URLs as well,” revealed a member of the Expression Blend and Design team.
The Deep Zoom Composer June 2009 Preview comes to the table with enhanced memory management, and is essentially less RAM hungry, the software giant stated. This move will allow for compositions with a greater number of images because memory usage has been reduced. At the same time, the Redmond-based company has also built reporting functionality into Deep Zoom Composer. In this regard, the June 2009 Preview release is capable of indicating just what are the images that get the most “eyeballs.” Microsoft indicated that there were additional minute improvements, but that moving forward the focus would be on enhancing in the UI/styling/usability of major features added for the next iteration of Deep composer.
“First Draft of Updated Collection Exporting - we have now added the ability for you to import images, tag them directly from your image list in the Compose view, pick from a set of pre-defined templates, and export. All of this was done without you having to first place your image on the design surface. This is an area we are going to significantly improve in our upcoming releases, so stay tuned for some further updates on what we have planned,” the Expression Blend and Design team representative added.
Deep Zoom Composer June 2009 Preview is available for download here.
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Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Operating system | Microsoft Windows (Media) |
Type | Multimedia |
License | Proprietary |
Website | msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645050(VS.95).aspx |
Deep Zoom is a technology developed by Microsoft for efficiently transmitting and viewing images. It allows users to pan around and zoom in a large, high resolution image or a large collection of images. It reduces the time required for initial load by downloading only the region being viewed or only at the resolution it is displayed at. Subsequent regions are downloaded as the user pans to (or zooms into them); animations are used to hide any jerkiness in the transition. The libraries are also available in other platforms including Java and Flash.
History[edit]
The Deep Zoom file format is very similar to the Google Maps image format where images are broken into tiles and then displayed as required. The tiling typically follows a quadtree pattern of increasing resolution of image (in other words twice the zoom and twice the resolution). The main difference is that with Google Maps the actual details on the image change from one zoom level to another, while with Deep Zoom the same image is displayed at each zoom level.
Seadragon Software, formerly Sand Codex, first created the Seadragon technology and its implementation of what is now called Deep Zoom. This technology was then absorbed into the Microsoft Live Labs when Seadragon Software was acquired. Engineers from Seadragon now work with Microsoft to integrate their work into technology such as Silverlight and Photosynth.[1]
Deep Zoom examples[edit]
The most famous implementation of Deep Zoom was probably the first: the memorabilia collection at the Hard Rock website. Magic mods minecraft. Conceived and designed by Duncan/Channon and built by Vertigo, it was demonstrated for the first time in March 2008 at the Microsoft MIX convention in Las Vegas.
In 2010, Microsoft Live Labs partnered with the University of California, Berkeley to create ChronoZoom, a DeepZoom-powered time visualization tool that pushed the limits of DeepZoom, since it required zooming from the scale of 13 billion years down to a single day. The project has since graduated to development under Microsoft Research.
Another example is the Deep Earth project. It is described by its creators as 'a community project focused on creating a rich interactive mapping control using Silverlight2 Deep Zoom. Concentrating on Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and data the project offers team members the opportunity to learn and share while creating something cool and useful.'
A paintings collection project http://galleryzoom.co.uk/ shows 1000 high resolution/sensor images individually indexed. (Using Deep Zoom Composer).
Blaise Aguera y Arcas gave a demonstration of Seadragon and Photosynth at the 2007 TED conference.
In November 2009, 352 Media Group, a Silverlight developer in the Microsoft Silverlight Partner Program, created an example of Deep Zoom using Microsoft Silverlight version 3.[2] It is online at 352 Media Group's Web site.
A recent example is the Winston Churchill Deep Zoom mosaic, created by Silverlight developers Shoothill, which features as both an online interactive deep zoom and a standalone deep zoom which forms part of the current Churchill exhibit in the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall.
Earlier this year, Shoothill built the Sumatran Tiger Deep Zoom - the largest seen to date - for worldwide conservation charity Fauna and Flora International, featuring thousands of images of endangered species.
An early example of Deep Zoom-like technology was implemented at The Department of Maori Affairs in New Zealand in 1997.[citation needed] The technology was used to display Maori land ownership.
Deep Zoom images[edit]
The file format used by Deep Zoom (as well as Photosynth and Seadragon Ajax) is XML based. Users can specify a single large image (dzi)[3] or a collection of images (dzc).[4] It also allows for 'Sparse Images'; where some parts of the image have greater resolution than others, an example of which can be found on the Seadragon Ajax home page; The bike image displayed is a sparse image.[5] Though used in the proprietary Deep Zoom, the dzi format is open and able to be used by anyone.
Deep Zoom image (dzi)[edit]
A DZI has two parts: a DZI file (with either a .dzi or .xml extension) and a subdirectory of image files. Each folder in the image subdirectory is labeled with its level of resolution. Higher numbers correspond to a higher resolution level;[6] inside each folder are the image tiles corresponding to that level of resolution.
Deep Zoom collection (dzc)[edit]
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A DZC is a collection of some number of DZIs linked and referenced by a DZC file (with either a .dzc or .xml extension). At a high level, a collection is a number of image thumbnails whose location is kept track of by the .dzc/.xml file, when zooming into an image, it accesses greater resolutions tiles. A DZC's structure is similar to that of a DZI; the .dzc/.xml file defines the collection and the subdirectory of folders maps to the DZI file structure, each with their set of .dzi/.xml and image tiles. The DZC is used in Microsoft's Pivot, but not in SeaDragon per se.
Sparse Images[edit]
Sparse images are a sub-classification of the DZI file type. A sparse image is normally a number of separate photographs with varying resolution levels that have been placed in a single DZI instead of a DZC. Sparse images have no different file structure than that of a DZI and differ only in that there is not a single 'highest resolution' level for the entire DZI.
iPhone OS development[edit]
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Microsoft Live Labs has created an application for the App Store called Seadragon Mobile.[7] It is run over the internet and includes Deep Zoom on the following categories; art, history, maps, photos, Photosynth which anybody can upload to, space and technology & web.
References[edit]
- ^Jaime Rodriguez: A deepzoom primer ( explained and coded).
- ^'Turning a Blank Wall in to a Microsoft Silverlight Deep Zoom Project - by Web Design Company 352 Media Group'. 352media.com. 2009-11-25. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^File Extension for Deep Zoom Image
- ^File Extension For Deep Zoom Collection
- ^Deep Zoom File Format Overview
- ^'Creating Seadragon Content – File Formats'. Seadragon.com. 2009-03-20. Archived from the original on 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^https://www.engadget.com/2008/12/14/microsoft-releases-first-iphone-application-seadragon/ Microsoft releases first iPhone/iPod application, Seadragon
External links[edit]
- OpenSeadragon uses Deep Zoom technology.
- Zoomo - image sharing website, uses OpenSeadragon for its image display.
- Zoomable - conversion tool, API available
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