Here is a really nice example of using Photosynth: http://photosynth.net/silverlight/photosynth.aspx?cid=462a28aa-561c-408d-a70a-5762f4624172 you can see that the user took a photo of a number of smaller photos in one shot, then took shots closer up of each of the individual photos.  Photosynth matched these images and makes it easy to view each of the smaller images in more detail.

Mark.

I have seen quite a few post on the web mixing up these term, saying things like "Silverlight gets Photosynth", which is not correct.   So ...

Silverlight (http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/) : cross platform runtime for developing rich internet applications.

Seadragon (http://livelabs.com/seadragon/) : component that allows you to view vast amounts of visual information quickly and with low bandwidth.

Photosynth (http://photosynth.net) : an applicatio which uses the Seadragon platform to allow you to zoom into great detail on photos uploaded to the photosynth website in a 3D environment.

DeepZoom (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645050(VS.95).aspx) : is an implementation of the SeaDragon engine inside the Silverlight runtime, exposed as the MultiScaleImage control.

Based on these definitions it would be correct to say "Silverlight gets DeepZoom".

Hi everyone - this is my first post!  Hopefully I will post some interesting articles on C#, Silverlight and graphics, stay tuned.

Mark.