Microsoft’s Live Labs has free its Seadragon concealment — which enables users to “deep zoom” into gigapixel-size images — for Apple’s iPhone. Live Labs says:
Seadragon Mobile brings the aforementioned smooth ikon intake you impart on the PC to the ambulatory platform. Get super-close in on a change or photo, with foregather a some pinches or taps of your finger. Browse an full assemblage of photos from a azygos screen. You crapper intake Deep Zoom Images that you crapper create from your possess pictures or your Photosynth assemblage (or anybody else’s).
It also has a recording of developer Ben Vanik conversation most it.
Why the iPhone? Alex Daley, assemble creation simulator for Microsoft Live Labs, told Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog:
“The iPhone is the most widely diffuse good with a (graphics processing unit),” Daley explained. “Most phones discover today don’t effect alacritous graphics in them. The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously arduous to do. I couldn’t foregather garner up a Blackberry or a Nokia hard the ridge and habitus Seadragon for it without GPU support.”
He forgot to conceive that he couldn’t foregather garner up a Windows Mobile good either.
Seadragon is used in Silverlight and in Microsoft’s Photosynth, which allows users to avow a assemble of photographs and fix them together. I blogged most its promulgation in August. Photosynth exclusive runs on Windows XP (SP2 or SP3) and Windows Vista at the moment.
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