Deep Zoom
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Enhance student learning by presenting compelling visual stories, exploring pictures in fine detail, and interacting with 3D images using the Deep Zoom feature of Microsoft Silverlight. It helps you use your PC like a powerful magnifying glass, zooming into high resolution images to explore them in minute detail. Use Deep Zoom to explore existing images, or create and explore your own interactive 3D images using tools such as Deep Zoom Composer and Microsoft Photosynth. It is a fun and engaging way to present a lesson, tell a story, or involve students in class presentations and activities.
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Explore all kinds of subjects with incredibly high resolution/3D pictures
Deep Zoom can be used in many different areas, but there are two key scenarios where Deep Zoom is particularly useful in the classroom. First is the exploration of very high resolution images, for example, maps where you can zoom in on different parts of a precreated map to see different details and "travel" around the surface. Second is 3D photography, where you can create (and explore) 360 degree views of a room or other scene. To create these, you can import images from your camera or any JPEG format from the Internet, and then use tools such as Deep Zoom Composer to save time as you decide where and how the images are positioned, resized, embedded or zoomed. Deep Zoom helps you publish in different formats when you are done.
Deep Zoom encourages deeper investigation of many sorts of subjects:
- Overlap images upon images for unique and creative expressions in the classroom setting
- Add links to images and areas within your Deep Zoom to clarify knowledge
- Provide a new medium for visual story telling
System requirements:
- Intel Pentium or AMD processor, 2 GHz
- 1 GB of RAM
- Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0–capable video card with 256 MB or more of memory (for example, ATI Radeon® X300 or NVIDIA® GeForce 5600)
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2
Resources
The Teachers Blog: Introduction to Deep Zoom Composer
In this post, Microsoft blogger Stuart provides an introduction to Deep Zoom Composer and provides an example for you to use in presentations.
The Teachers Blog: Deep Zoom Composer Mosaics
In this post, Microsoft blogger Stuart provides further detail on creating Deep Zoom mosaics.
Hard Rock Café Memorabilia: Sample Deep Zoom
Explore the Hard Rock Café's memorabilia collection with this Deep Zoom image.
About Deep Zoom Composer
MSDN page with an overview of Deep Zoom Composer, the tool that helps you prepare images for use with Deep Zoom.
Deep Zoom home page on MSDN
Everything you want to know about Deep Zoom can be found here.
A Deep Zoom primer
MSDN blog post with explanations of the history and math behind Deep Zoom, as well as detailed instructions for creating a Deep Zoom image. Includes code examples for developers.