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I've been following Photosynth for a while now (amazingly nearly 2 years!), since seeing some early demos of Piazza San Marco in Venice to the announcement that Microsoft finally unleashed Photosynth upon the web (see article). At the last Silverlight User Group meeting, we had a talk from John Penrose about Graphico's efforts of synthing the ...

If you're creating a DeepZoom collection in Silverlight 2, you will at some point have to get a massive amount of files into a web server's filesystem. What DeepZoom Composer does is crunch source images into tiny tiles of images that are then intelligently served when a user is browsing a collection. What you're left with is a folder and series ...

  When you get a new technology like Seadragon, you first work out how to get it out there in the hands of people who can use it in anger, and then you incubate it. In the case of Seadragon, Blaise Aguera y Arcas first showcased it very publicly at TED last year. Since then, the team at Microsoft Live Labs who own the technology decided on ...

I helped Richard Griffin deploy a Silverlight 2.0 DeepZoom demo he had put together at the end of last week on an internal server. We deployed the application inside a virtual directory in IIS but the application would not load in the browser. Using Fiddler it became apparent that the main Silverlight application was requesting a .xap file ...