A Deep Zoom Christmas Card

Click the image to check it out (don’t forget to zoom out):

Nice use of a DZI sparse image.

DocZoom

Some folks in Korea have put together DocZoom, a Silverlight Deep Zoom based electronic document reader. Click the image for an example of it in action:

Some interesting UI details (not to mention some major Apple homages), especially how they deal with links and videos embedded in the content.

For more information, check out this blog post.

Silverlight Photosynth Viewer

The Photosynth team has created an experimental Photosynth viewer with Silverlight, which uses Deep Zoom. This means Mac users (at least those with Intel Macs) can now view synths. It’s not integrated with the rest of the site yet (though you can copy and paste the URL for any synth to view it), and it doesn’t yet support point clouds, but it certainly shows great promise.