Monday, April 14, 2008

... you will find a lot of persons.

No, i am not schizophrenic (i believe), but last weekend i played around a little with the new Silverlight 2 Deepzoom Control [0].

... and that's the result: my cat, my city, my self ;-) (only visible in IE with latest Silverlight plugin)

use mouse for zooming and moving

What you need are some big very detailed images and the deep zoom composer [5], which generates the tiles. Then reference the generated output to the MultiScaleImage Control:

msiSnippet.png

The hardest but also funniest thing was to get a nice detailed picture. I only found the virtual pixel town [1] from a german pixel project. Unfortunately most of the good panorama gigapixel images cost a lot, so i decided to generate my own ones;) The first is a sweet "fear-me" cat [2]. I converted it to ascii text with the help of the mosascii m2 tool [3]. And the big mosaic of myself i created with andrea mosaic [4].

Notes:
[0] Thanks Jeff Prosis for his Expression Blend Solution (http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jprosise/archive/2008/04/01/silverlight-deep-zoom.aspx)
[1] http://www.vo-pixeltown.com/
[2] http://allcutecats.blogspot.com/2007/09/fear-me-kitten.html
[3] http://www.mosasciim2.com
[4] http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/
[5] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=457b17b7-52bf-4bda-87a3-fa8a4673f8bf&displaylang=en
[6] DeepZoom Memorabilia: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ 

 

Monday, April 14, 2008 6:28:01 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [2]  | 
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:30:34 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Hoffentlich sind Sandra und Jens einverstanden mit der Veröffentlichung von massenhaft Hochzeitsfotos ;-)
Anonymous coward
Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:40:11 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Stimmt, sind ein bisschen viel davon geworden. Aber das geht in Ordnung, hab schon gefragt.
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