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Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-interested-in-the-image-capture-and-storage dept.

Barence writes "Yesterday, during a presentation for this year's Imagine Cup, Microsoft's Mark Taylor demonstrated the company's Deep Zoom technology to appreciative gasps of admiration from the computing students present. It's pretty impressive stuff, and you can try 'deep zooming' for yourself at the Hard Rock Memorabilia Site." Unfortunately the demo requires the Silverlight plugin and the story is pretty thin on technical details. I would be interested to see how they captured the image data to that level without massive pixelation.

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  1. Installing Silverlight by jbeaupre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Makes me think of drug pushing: the first sample is free. Nancy Reagan, don't fail me now!

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    1. Re:Installing Silverlight by Ucklak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Silverlight makes as much sense to install as Sibelus.
      Worthless POS of software.

      I even wasted an afternoon with Sibelus to install it and the websites that require it other than the first one I went to still say I need to install it.

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