Deep Zoom in Action
In the past few posts we’ve explored Deep Zoom to explain what it is, how you can use it and what free tools are available so you can try it yourself. There are some great examples of how Deep Zoom’s been used so far, so we thought we’d pull some of the best ones together [...]
Free Tools for building Deep Zoom and Silverlight applications
The good news is that many of these tools are free so you can try out the technology and build applications based on Silverlight and Deep Zoom without having to spend a penny. In this post I’ll give a brief description of the different tools as well as options for free versions and trial versions.
Building [...]
The Underbelly Cartoon, by Andrew Fryer
‘Deep Zoom’, by Andrew Fryer
Underbelly Thinking Digital Wall of Fame
At Thinking Digital 2010 last week I spent a day taking pictures of as many attendees and speakers as possible and asked each person ‘if you could describe yourself in two words, what would they be?’. It was great fun and very revealing – try thinking of what two words you’d use to describe yourself [...]
Video HowTo: Creating extremely high-res imagery
Following on from my post “Video HowTo: Creating a Deep Zoom with high-res regions”, I’ve created another video illustrating a similar technique but this time using image stitching to create an extremely high-res image. Silverlight Deep Zoom is perfect for this as it allows the end user to explore the whole image, at whatever depth [...]
Video HowTo: Creating a Deep Zoom with high-res regions
In previous posts I’ve described a number of different applications for enhancing the customer experience in online retailing (although of course these techniques lend themselves to many other applications as well) using Deep Zoom and Silverlight. In the next few posts I’ll be exploring how to achieve these effects.
I’ll start with this post in which [...]
Retail Applications for Deep Zoom and Silverlight Continued 3
My previous post included a simple carousel for 360 degree product viewing which uses the perspective 3D feature of Microsoft Silverlight to give the illusion of a 3D object. There are a few ways we can easily improve it (setting aside the complete lack of any sort of design input!). In particular the rotation effect [...]
Retail Applications for Deep Zoom and Silverlight Continued 2
As well as the high resolution imagery I talked about in my previous posts here and here, another common requirement is for customers to be able to see a 360 degree view of a product. This might be something as sophisticated as a full 3D model representation but in most cases, some sort of carousel-type [...]
Retail Applications for Deep Zoom and Silverlight Continued 1
In my previous post I described one technique for creating extremely high resolution imagery for Deep Zoom well suited to retail applications. Sometimes, you don’t need the whole image to be high resolution. You can accept an “overview” picture with embedded islands of higher resolution for specific points of interest that customers may want to [...]
Big Brother Deep Zoom Commemorates Final Series
Posted by sara on June 9, 2010 · View Comments
Love it or hate it, you’ve had to have lived abroad or in a cave for the past 10 years to have missed Channel 4’s reality TV programme Big Brother. To help give the final series the send off it deserves, Shoothill have created a Silverlight Deep Zoom of past Big Brother housemates – zoom into [...]
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