Deep Zoom - Generate on Demand/Dynamically
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Is there a way to generate a Deep Zoom image dynamically on demand, from a bunch of images contained on a web server, in a Silverlight application? Say I have a list of 400 URLs to images that I get from a database, which vary based on user input, and I want to create a Deep Zoom image by stitching all those other images together in say a 20x20 grid (400 total). Is it possible to do this in Deep Zoom, or will I need to write my own implementation. From what I've read of Deep Zoom this isn't possible, it's only good for displaying an image that was manually created (via Deep Zoom Composer) ahead of time, rather than on demand. But I obviously want to double check this before I go off and create my own 2D grid of elements, implement my own zoom via RenderTransform etc.
Dominic Pettifer Blog: www.dominicpettifer.co.uk
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Is there a way to generate a Deep Zoom image dynamically on demand, from a bunch of images contained on a web server, in a Silverlight application? Say I have a list of 400 URLs to images that I get from a database, which vary based on user input, and I want to create a Deep Zoom image by stitching all those other images together in say a 20x20 grid (400 total). Is it possible to do this in Deep Zoom, or will I need to write my own implementation. From what I've read of Deep Zoom this isn't possible, it's only good for displaying an image that was manually created (via Deep Zoom Composer) ahead of time, rather than on demand. But I obviously want to double check this before I go off and create my own 2D grid of elements, implement my own zoom via RenderTransform etc.
Dominic Pettifer Blog: www.dominicpettifer.co.uk
You could have a look at: http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth[^] I imagine that must do what your asking. (Unless they've got a precalculated DeepZoom image somewhere?)
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Is there a way to generate a Deep Zoom image dynamically on demand, from a bunch of images contained on a web server, in a Silverlight application? Say I have a list of 400 URLs to images that I get from a database, which vary based on user input, and I want to create a Deep Zoom image by stitching all those other images together in say a 20x20 grid (400 total). Is it possible to do this in Deep Zoom, or will I need to write my own implementation. From what I've read of Deep Zoom this isn't possible, it's only good for displaying an image that was manually created (via Deep Zoom Composer) ahead of time, rather than on demand. But I obviously want to double check this before I go off and create my own 2D grid of elements, implement my own zoom via RenderTransform etc.
Dominic Pettifer Blog: www.dominicpettifer.co.uk
You can serve up your own tiles like DeepEarth does...the tiles can also be created dynamically. If you want to create a DeepZoom file like the composer does, the format is documented: Deep Zoom File Format[^]
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: