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Silverlight - Photosynth - DeepZoom - Seadragon

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".

Published Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:36 AM by markdaws

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