Following on from my post “Video HowTo: Creating a Deep Zoom with high-res regions”, I’ve created another video illustrating a similar technique but this time using image stitching to create an extremely high-res image. Silverlight Deep Zoom is perfect for this as it allows the end user to explore the whole image, at whatever depth they choose, in a very interactive way.
This post contains a simple example which I recreate in the video.
The video describes the fundamentals of how to create this type of experience using standard consumer photographic equipment (digital camera, tripod) and a free tool called Microsoft Image Composite Editor that stitches together the raw images and (optionally) generates a Deep Zoom Silverlight application.
The resulting application can be embedded on a web page. Importantly there’s no requirement to host in IIS or use ASP.NET, the Silverlight application can be hosted on pretty much any web server and any type of web page (HTML, PHP etc etc). This opens up the possibility to embed extremely rich content irrespective of the web stack or framework at the heart of your application.
