Deep Zoom at the BBC
The BBC has a Silverlight thick zoom app as part of the web coverage of the ‘Radio 1 Large Weekend’ event. (“Europe’s magnanimousest liberal fined event” obviously.) If you live in the UK and have caught BBC television at all this week, you’ve in all probability already envisioned the adverts for the event itself.
The thick zoom app allows a flavour of the event for people who can’t plow up in person – photos of the event will be uploaded throughout the weekend. (And I suppose people who did move could render and find out themselves in the crowd shots next week.)
From a expert perspective, it’s nothing you succeeded’t already have watched if you’ve considered the Hard Rock Cafe’s memorabilia site – indeed, the BBC app is somewhat unsubdivided. The independent difference is that the BBC’s photo collection that will develop as the event extends – not quite alive of course, but a bit less stable than the Hard Rock application. (And more unsanded for it of course, but that’s belike in keeping with the nature of the event.)
Mystifying Zoom and Photo Collections
What I feel interesting is that I wish this way of grazing photos much more than I guessed I would. Deep zoom is in spades one of the more prominently fun features of Silverlight 2, but as it’s finally a bit of a one-trick pony, I opined I’d be pretty practically done with it after playing with the Hard Rock demo.
But it wrenchs out nonetheless to be growing on me long after the initial ‘ooh’ factor. I mean it’s a surprisingly natural way to present photographs.
I precisely broke down to flickr , and coincidently enough the first picture it evinced me on the front page was a shot from a concert. It’s a well picture, but wow the user interface fingers bland! Having buzzed off used to the thick zoom style of photo grazing, flickr at present feels positively bust.
So I desire thick zoom for my on-line photo collections delight!
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