Shoothill celebrate Apollo mission with Deep Zoom
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo missions to the moon and to celebrate this amazing achievement Shoothill have created a Deep Zoom experience - "Deep Moon - 10GB of Apollo imagery".
[You will need Microsoft Silverlight installed on your PC (this will automatically ask you to download) and do have your speakers on.]
For the past 18 months or so, Shoothill has been trying to push the boundaries of Microsoft Deep Zoom in order to show to the world what Deep Zoom (and Shoothill) is capable of. However, DZ is still in beta right now and there are some limitations particularly in terms of total size of image and the sheer volume of information that needs to be processed and this creates both time problems and ultimately restricts what we are able to do. What this means in practical terms is that all Deep Zooms so far produced around the world have a limit of around 10,000 x 10,000 pixels.
Now, Shoothill has developed some code and a process to help improve this and in order to demonstrated these new capabilities we have created what they believe is the ultimate Deep Zoom...............DEEP MOON......................
1. First the zoom loads and you will see a clear image:-
2. Second, the mosaic slowly reveals itself 'through' the master image:-
3. When you zoom into the mosaic you will see that it is truly vast
4. And the quality of the cell images cannot be bettered......and there are 60,000 of them!
This image is truly gargantuan in size and Shoothill believe that this level of quality (of both the master image and the clarity of the individual cells) represents the current limit of Deep Zoom.
Shoothill is a Microsoft partner with a great track record in Innovative User Data Visualisation experiences (recently nominated as finalists for World 2009 Microsoft Partner Award in data Visualisation) using Bing Maps and Microsoft Silverlight which you may have come across on MSN such as recent the Michael Jackson imagery.
I love the way Deep Zoom provides a truly engaging way to interact with data.
If you interested in this image contact Rod Plummer at 
