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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. Re:Maybe not CSI by PitaBred · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, you make it easier to target a smaller group of people, basically putting the onus of work on the customer to install another damn plugin (if it's even available and works right on their system), rather than the programmer? I thought things were supposed to work the other way around...

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  2. Re:Deep Zoom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How dare you insult my penis.

    It's more of a tictac, you insensitive clod!

  3. Change of pace? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, at least this romp into heterosexual sex is a nice change from the usual stories of eating shit fresh out of toilets while Richard Stallman vomits on the cocks as he blows them.

  4. Silverlight is microsoft's latest failure by JimboFBX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Silverlight is probably the first and only plugin that insists it isn't installed even when it is. Did it for MLB.com. MLB.com still thinks I don't have it. Did it for that website. I get this:


    Before installing this version of Silverlight, please close all browser windows and uninstall all previously installed versions of Silverlight.
    installed version 2.0.30523.6
    requested version 2.0.30226


    Does it for both I.E. and firefox. Clicking on the uninstall link gives VIDEOS instead of an actual uninstaller, not that uninstalling ever fixed my problem in the past.