Deep Zoom Madi Gras
And on the front page of smh.com.au! Well, it won’t be now. Took me too long to decide to blog it… but here’s a screenshot!
The team over at Microsoft have laid down the gauntlet with a deep zoom collage of the photography going back to 1978! There are hundreds of photos, all easily filtered in realtime, and the experience is impressive. The entire application was developed in just 6 days, and is stored on the Windows Azure Storage Services.
Hurry! You can still check it out HERE. And for more information on how those delicate geniuseseses put it together, head over the Michael Kordahi‘s blog.
Read MoreDeep Zoom Visio Architecture Diagrams
A few people already have asked ‘How did you do the architecture through to code deep zoom?’. So here is a 5 minute overview.
First up, my usual disclaimer… I don’t recommend using this format for real architecture diagrams. They will have too much detail that will make this process too fiddly and prone to error. I do however recommend this for Deep Zoom presentations.
Creating architecture in deep zoom is easy. But there are a few hurdles. The main issue people face that their diagram software does not allow for minute fonts. I use Visio, and have exactly that issue. Here is the solution…
Read MoreMaking a Deep Zoom Slide Deck from Powerpoint
Many people at Remix08 were asking about the slide deck I had collated in Deep Zoom for the Building Immersive Media Applications in Silverlight presentation. This post is a brief overview of how to create a Deep Zoom slide deck, such as the one below. Click / drag / scroll around on it and you will get the idea. If you can’t see it you will need Silverlight 2 (currently beta) installed.
Now you have stopped playing with it, and decided to read this paragraph, there is one thing I should say. I do not recommend everyone jumping ship and moving to a Deep Zoom slide deck, it is slightly technical, but there are certain situations where it shines.
So here are some easy steps to moving from a Powerpoint slide deck, to a high quality Deep Zoom slide deck.
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