I wanted to share the pictures from my first trip to China (Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai) and Korea (Seoul). I decided to employ the latest hotness in Web-based, high-resolution image visualization: Silverlight Deep Zoom. It is something you have to see to fully appreciate. Here’s what you need to do to get started:
Installation
- Install Silverlight 2 (currently in Beta but it’s safe and will auto-update).
- Return to this page and hit F5 to refresh.
The above steps only need to be done once. If you see the images below, you already have Silverlight installed.
Navigation
- Pan around the image by click-dragging (like Live/Google Maps).
- If your mouse has a wheel: Use the wheel to zoom in/out for more/less detail.
- If your mouse does not have a wheel: Left-click to zoom in, hold down Shift then left-click to zoom out.
I hope you enjoy the photos and Deep Zoom. Let me know what you think.
Any chance you can hook up a double click to a full screen view?
Love the pics. Thanks for sharing.
–Leon
Good idea. I’ll look into doing that in future galleries.
Very cool – although it could use some boundary checks. I tried to use my scroll wheel to scroll down the page and your photos became the size of a single pixel and disappeared.
Either way I must say I’m pretty impressed with Silverlight overall as a platform vs flash. The only thing good about flash is that it’s everywhere.
Wow, great pictures, I can’t wait to hear the stories