The point of a good jpeg2000 compliant zoom server is performance. You send and receive only the region of interest. Zooming is near instantaneous. With a good interface you see the ROI as a highlighted rectangle against the full view. You then don't have problems maintaining and pre-cutting many details of the the image, or as in the case of Zoomify, you don't create the maintenance havoc of thousands of associated files.
Luna's Insight does this well. Even better if there is a great open source alternative. Insight does have the advantage of many integrations with popular CMS apps (including TMS) and a full blown presentation interface for lecturing. On 9/5/07 7:19 PM, "Kenneth Hamma" <khamma at getty.edu> wrote: > Probably got a point Matt, in any event bigger images is great idea. We are > looking at IIPImage at the moment not for general consumption but for easy > sharing among professionals of very high resolution images that result as part > of the documentation of conservation treatment, investigation and survey. > That will likely include zooming and panning but also things like mapping and > viewing highly magnified cross sections of paint samples, overlay comparison > of x-radiographs and natural light images, and the like. > >>>> "Morgan, Matt" <matt.morgan at metmuseum.org> 09/05/07 2:54 PM >>> > Do we know that users like zooming? Or if certain particular groups of users > like zooming? > > I often find zooming irritating. I would mostly rather have a single, > somewhat larger full view of an image than to zoom in on just a piece of the > image, even if the detail is not as good. Zooming takes more clicks & drags, > and then I end up with something where I can't really see the work. > > I just wonder sometimes if the effort we put into zoom is worthwhile. Should > we just make the images bigger? I know that ours could be a lot bigger > before it's possible to get any financial gain by stealing them. > > Thanks, > Matt > > On 9/5/07 4:28 PM, "Kenneth Hamma" <khamma at getty.edu> wrote: > >> Joanna, >> >> We are looking (with National Gallery in London who is already way ahead of >> us) at IIPImage Server along with java scripts to make it do interesting >> things beyond simply viewing images. See: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/iipimage >> >> and a java browser demo: >> >> http://leo.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/archive/kirk/iipdemos/jiipdemozepler.html >> >> We are just at the beginning of this but hope to have something that might be >> available to the larger community in the near future. If you're interested >> let me know. >> >> ken >> >>>>> "Champagne, Joanna" <J-Champagne at NGA.GOV> 09/05/07 11:22 AM >>> >> Hello, >> >> How are you? If anyone is currently using a Pan Zoom server or similar >> solutions opposed to Zoomify would you please let me know, we wanted to >> learn more about the option. Thanks so much. >> >> >> Best, >> Joanna >> >> ............................................... >> Joanna Champagne >> Chief of Web and New Media Initiatives >> National Gallery of Art >> NGA.GOV >> ............................................... >> >> National Gallery of Art Videos & Podcasts >> http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm >> >> National Gallery of Art Cell Phone Tour >> http://www.nga.gov//cell/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
