Comments on: BangaloreFx: Silverlight Meeting Report

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:19:39 +0000

You’re most welcome Sreedhar .. It was a pleasure meeting you again.

By: ambatisreedhar

ambatisreedhar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:15:38 +0000

Hi Mrinal

Thanks for arranging the event.

Thanks
Sreedhar Ambati
http://ambatisreedhar.spaces.live.com

By: flash ria

flash ria — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:07:42 +0000

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By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:11:16 +0000

Franklin,

Thanks a lot for the explanation, I don’t know a lot on the subject of the zoom technology .. the two technologies do seem quite similar but I have a few suggestions for you

1. If your technology can zoom to any extent I’d say remove the restriction, you never know what uses people may find for it.

2. A very big advantage that I see with DeepZoom (assuming everything else is at par) is that its a component .. totally customizable and programatically controllable .. I’d suggest that you convert zoomorama to a flex component and then sell the component .. deepzoom is customizable to the extent of allowing you to programatically add more images to the collection at runtime.

Just my two cents,
Mrinal

By: Franklin

Franklin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:18:54 +0000

Thank you for discussing zoomorama. We can do zooming as much as we wish for, but for the sake of simplicity we restricted it to 6 levels which is more than most people need.

The big difference between DeepZoom and Zoomorama is that DeepZoom creates thousands of nested folders to store the different tiles of your scene making it cumbersome to do any post-creation edit. For Zoomorama each zoomable image is a file, so inserting a new images does not require any work on the server or in the file system.

The resutl of a zoomorama is fully in Flash and can be embedded anywhere.

Try it and enjoy. Free account with 2Gb of storage.

Feedback is welcome ! We are in pre-Beta mode.

Thanks again.

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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:31:45 +0000

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By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:06:30 +0000

Hi Arpit,

The technology seems similar although the examples for deepzoom and the speed with which it happens seem more impressive

On the hardrock site look at the 3 image in the 6th row, its a bunch of letters … zoom into the letter on the extreme right .. it has a bunch of ink blots .. zoom into the ink blot on the extreme right .. it has a grid of 16 pictures .. zoom into the 2nd image in the third row .. you see a sign board on a hard rock cafe .. zoom into the sign board on the left .. you see a shop’s glass display and a photo frame in the center .. zoom into the photo frame you see a very clear picture of the beetles .. and all this happens quite fast.

I’m not sure if we can do this with http://zoomorama.com/
technology that Lee points to.

By: arpit

arpit — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:45:38 +0000

So I have no experience in Deep Zoom but I do remember Lee Brimelow from Adobe saying that deep zoom was there in Flash (seems like a product from another company but built on Flash). See http://theflashblog.com/?p=351. Is the Silverlight version any better than the one in the post ?