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What about SeaDragon?
Will SeaDragon receive its own tech preview, or is it an integral part of Photosynth? SeaDragon (the technology that rebuilds images into a pyramid of layers for fast performance) has outstanding potential aside from its application in Photosynth, and it would be lovely to see it developed further on its own.
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Inappropriate?It's now known as "Deep Zoom" I believe, it's part of Silverlight 2.0 and probably other things.
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Inappropriate?Fowl is correct.
Also - Seadragon is intergral to Photosynth. That's how we achieve the smooth delivery of images and zooming capabilities. -
Inappropriate?A few Deep Zoom demos:
http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
http://www.kbb.com/kbb/PerfectCarFind...
http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_de...
The Deep Zoom blog:
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Inappropriate?Thanks guys!
I'm equally intrigued by Deep Zoom as with Photosynth. I think both technologies, each in its own way, have the potential to revolutionize the web, so I've been following your releases for more than a year now.
Photosynth is a cool tool, but its real value will no doubt be for visual search. It is apparent to me that a new kind of search engine will emerge in the near future, where the user input will be visual and not textual. A Photosynth-like tool will analyze the user's image, compare it to a super-massive collection of images on the web, and present the user with links to pages with similar/near images. For example, I could snap a picture of a famous building with my cellular phone camera, upload the image to this search engine, and receive a link to pages that discuss this particular building.
Deep Zoom is already in use, as the above mentioned demos show, and will eventually allow for a radical transformation of the way websites are built and especially how images are shown on the web.
So keep up the excellent work!
I’m excited!
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Inappropriate?I've had a nagging question for some time about SeaDragon and it runs like this: in Blaise's presentation at TED, he demonstrated the full text of Dickens' "Bleak House" and claimed that it was actual text instead of text rendered to an image. I have never understood what was going on there, as it seems to me that SeaDragon is fundamentally built on the tiling pyramids of raster images. Certainly the last time I looked at Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2, it offered only image delivery.
I am extremely intrigued by the designs that would be made possible by delivery of actual editable text on a mass scale that SeaDragon claims (if I understood Blaise correctly) to deliver. As of yet, however, I have not seen this applied to either Photosynth or Deep Zoom. I would love an answer either here or on the team blog about products to watch for that would utilize the text delivery capabilities of SeaDragon.
Love the work, guys.
I’m dying of curiosity
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I'm glad you like our work, but unfortunately we can't comment on possible future projects. -
Fair enough... trade secrets and all.
Would I at least be correct in stating that: "
a) neither the current public release of Deep Zoom nor Photosynth deliver zoomable actual text
b) zoomable text on a mass scale is a true feature of SeaDragon, and
c) this feature is likely to be introduced in some future Microsoft product"? -
Inappropriate?Silverlight 2, including Deep Zoom, is now released. See earlier links to demos, now updated to release Deep Zoom.
I’m happy Deep Zoom has shipped!
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