I was getting this error when processing some jpeg files. Most of the images work, but some don’t. The image data generated an overflow during processing.

Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F05

My code is pretty basic:

Dim z As New Microsoft.DeepZoomTools.ImageCreator()
z.ImageQuality = 0.95
z.MaxLevel = 12
z.Create(ZoomImage.FullName, XmlFile)

Couldn’t be the code right, must be the file. So I thought it had something to do with the metadata in the image.
When I used photoshop to copy the content om the image in a new canvas and process that new file, it worked perfectly.

Turns out it was the metadata in the file and an windows update could fix this. The solution can be found at this page. 

Check the result of the Deepzoom implementation at www.primadonna.eu starting at the end of september 2009.

The Deep Zoom Composer June 2009 Preview is now available for download. The Deep Zoom Composer now uses way less memory than it did before, so you can work with more images in your composition. Furthermore there are new ways to navigate, the possibility to link images to external URLs, updated Collection Exporting and more…

Download Deep Zoom Composer

As always, please uninstall all existing versions of Deep Zoom Composer before installing the new version. A lot of the features that were introduced are a bit rough on the edges, so the team is going to be investing heavily in the UI/styling/usability of them for upcoming releases. So feel free to comment on things you like or don’t like in comments on their post here.

Hello world. Welcome to my first blog post. 

My name is Chris McPherson. I’m a software engineer and one of the founding partners of Firefly Logic, a young software company in Nashville, TN. If you’re in business in Nashville, chances are you’re directly or indirectly involved in one of a handful of the big industries that thrive here. The most prominent from where I sit are healthcare, entertainment and publishing. In the healthcare arena Nashville has HCA Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare companies in the country, Vanderbilt Medical Center and the University, Meharry Medical College and countless others. On the entertainment side, we have the Country Music Association, CMT, The Grand Ole Opry, and Historic Music Row where it all happens. For publishing there’s Thomas Nelson, the leading publisher of bibles and there are several other large religious publishing houses headquartered here. 

When you’re a small independent software shop in a place like this, the opportunity to ply your trade in a wide variety of venues is enormous. And our happy band of intrepid byte crunchers has been lucky enough to be right in the thick of all this awesomeness over these last years.

I first met my co-founders while doing a extended tour of duty at HCA. We formed our company during that time and since then we’ve worked for the likes of CMA, the Grand Ole Opry, Cell Journalist, AO Smith, Shlumberger and many others. Along the way we’ve seen a lot, and learned a ton. I hope all this will translate to some occasionally interesting blog posts about technology and if that doesn’t work out, I can always talk about the places to score some killer Indian food or maybe a good cigar.

Right now, we’re in the middle of a large effort with Microsoft and CMA on a project for the upcoming CMA Music Fest, using Microsoft’s Silverlight and DeepZoom technologies. So, there’ll be a few posts about that I’m sure.

Anyway, thanks for dropping in and stay tuned, I might just say something interesting.

-Chris

This is cool website that allows you to do some deep zooming to your pics and have a lot viewed at one time its a really cool thing from Microsoft and if you go to the site they give you a demo.

GO HERE

I spent a couple of days in Dubai at the Lynx Advertising festival.  I was not sure what to expect from Dubai but I can share my personal thoughts over a beer. If you like the sight of what seems like eternal building works, metro’s in the making, traffic detours every 200 meter and the utter lack of what gives cities their soul and reason of existence (simple things like people walking in a street for instance), you should go. The place being referred to as “the old city” is merely 24 months old… so all a matter of perspective really. Unless you want to tick your boxes on skiing in the desert and seeing the biggest shopping mall & biggest tower in the world - we all have our fetishes.  I admit I have not seen the fantastic white sand beaches annex 5 star hotels, and the pool of the great Sangri-La hotel was still a bit weird on the 4^th floor in the middle of the city traffic noises. But hee, I was there to attend the seminars, meet clients, do a keynote. So let’s move on.

A great line up of speakers.  Contagious editorial director Paul Kemp-Robertson examined how to make the most of mass communications whilst using digital technology to create deeper, more bespoke relationships with passionate groups of brand loyalists. ‘Traditional advertising still has a role to play, but by creating more targeted, granular, niche relationships with people, you start having much more fun as a brand,’ says Kemp-Robertson. ‘The interaction with consumers becomes more meaningful, because it’s now based on conversations with people who have elected to be part of the brand, and therefore expect deeper levels of service, helpful applications and exclusive content.’

Laura Desmond, the global CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group spoke about turning around the agency into a “human experience agency”. Where digital is at the centre, shaking up the traditional agency models. Media agencies need to create human experiences for the brands they serve. And looking at the crisis today as a “too good an opportunity to waste.”

And many many great conversations !  Once in a while business conversations bring more to the table than just business. Fortunately so. It’s why a simple coffee with Tham Khai Meng – the Worldwide creative director for Ogilvy & Mather and Jury President of the Dubai Lynx for TV, Print, Outdoor and Radio – becomes an inspiring talk about the ad industry, values in life, brand conversations and the endless advertising clutter in life. But we basically agreed to disagree. Khai sees “digital as one letter of the alphabet that translates a great idea into execution”. I thought that was very reductionist. For sure it starts with the Big Idea but in today’s world digital is the context for all consumer behaviour. It cannot be reduced to a single ‘channel’ that defines its audience simply through their use of it. Our presence in this digital environment doesn’t define us because it’s increasingly assumed. For the first time in advertising’s history, those practising it can no longer buy an audience; instead they have to find ways to connect to individuals. And second: you don’t know what you don’t know until someone tells you what you don’t know. The Big Idea might very well be inspired by great technology, because it enables us to do things that were unthought-of before.  Anyway – very charming guy and we agreed to connect. 

In my own keynote I talked about “Harnessing Digital Creativity To Connect Brands To Consumers”.  Digital has come a long way in the last five years, but for it to really start punching its weight, fundamental change is necessary. Brands need to place digital media at the heart of their marketing strategies; agencies need to get smart and ensure campaigns really connect with consumers.  Facilitating that conversation is technology.

I talked about Silverlight, a new platform that allows designers and developers to work across platforms and creates a rich, seamless experience for consumers. And Deepzoom, a Silverlight-enabled technology that can incorporate a terabyte of information on a single web page. It allows users to zoom in and out of high-definition web pages uncovering whole new layers of information. In the world of Deepzoom, you don’t need to surf from page to page to pursue links or find information; you just need to look more closely at the page you’re already on.

In this new consumer reality it has never been more important than before that media owners/publishers, advertisers and creative agencies have to work together to deliver new brand experiences. Partnerships are key. It’s not about us taking your money, going away and coming back with an audience ready to sit and listen to what you have to say. Such a compliant audience no longer exists. But we can introduce you to a quite staggering number of individuals ready and willing to communicate with and about you. And we can help you develop the best, simplest and most valued way of having that conversation. It’s what we’ll be calling advertising – from now on. We believe.

The SMH site is today featuring a firetrucking load of past Sydney Madri Gras imagery – all powered by Silverlight.

More details can be seen on Delicate’s blog here. Delicate has done some great work here, both organising the feature and coding it! Making it even cooler is that it’s hosted on Azure!

It’s a good day for Silverlight in Australia – a good deal of people will see it in action. This app also clearly demonstrates some of the differences between Silverlight and other RIA technologies… deep zoom is seriously cool. Make sure you resize the window!

P.S. Jump in to IE8, crack open the direct URL to the IFRAME (here) and hook up the webslice… and resize that too. Wow it’s cool, well done Kordsy.

Silverlight er en relativt ny webteknologi fra Microsoft. I den siste versjonen er det støtte for DeepZoom, en teknologi som stammer fra Seadragon. Man kan sette sammen mange bilder i en collage og zoome ut og inn, alt fra browseren så lenge Silverlight er installert.

Dette muliggjør nye måter å vise fram bilder på.

DeepZoom Composer er en måte å lage slike gallerier på. Her gjør man det helt fra scratch og har styring på alle variabler og parametere selv. Programmet er enkelt i bruk og man har en fast prosedyre man må følge helt fra tillegging av bilder via komposisjon til eksportering. Dette fungerer svært bra og man har god kontroll hele veien. Det store aberet er maskinkapasitet. Med mindre man har state of the art maskinvare, må man påberegne mye tid til kompilering ved store gallerier. DeepZoom forutsetter .Net framework 3.5 for å fungere.

Mooncake er annen måte. Her kan man hente inn bilder fra Flickr. Prosesseringen skjer på server og man får ut ferdig kompilert DeepZoom galleri. Aberet med denne løsningen er den proprietære avspilleren. I tillegg er det litt keitete å legge til mange bilder da man kun kan legge til ett og ett.

PhotoZoom er en tredje måte å få ut et galleri på. Dette er MS Live Labs sin eksperimentløsning. Her kan man legge til bilder både fra disk og via RSS feed. Man kan derfor enkelt legge til bilder fra Flickr via RSS. En bakdel her er selvsagt Flickr sin begrensing på 20 bilder pr feed. Denne løsningen fungerer utmerket og man kan embedde hvor som helst ved bruk av iframe. Man har ingen justeringsmuligheter her, så bildene blir lagt i maks bredde på 6 kolonner. Bilder kommer radvis utover dette. Det er en begrensning på 100 bilder pr galleri.

Hardrock cafe har demonstrert teknologien på en utmerket måte ved å lage en collage av alle sine effekter. Kan sees her: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/

Has visto como funciona el famoso Google Earth o Google Maps, igual el Virtual Earth? Está bien, todos hemos visto como funciona chevere veo la imagen a lo lejos y cuando hago scroll con el mouse el mapa se acerca y se va volviendo la imágen más nítida haciendo una especie de tracking; pero eso hasta el momento lo hemos visto solo en mapas… Ahora también podemos hacer lo mismo con imágenes utilizando esta herramienta muy útil el DeepZoom que corre sobre aplicaciones de Microsoft Silverlight. Si quieren ver una muestra de como funcionaría esto aquí les dejo varios links:

• http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
• http://imagezoom.net/

Aquí les dejo un link de descarga de DeepZoom. Download Deep Zoom Composer

DeepZoom on iPhone

Microsoft have just released their first iPhone app – DeepZoom. You’ve got some great aerial photos,  but the ‘world wide web music scene’ image is great. Definitely worth a download as its free.

Its also got a PhotoSynth app built into it with a great interface to the collections, but its a bit slow to load.

Can’t wait to see Silverlight emerge.

 
 Long story short, this is an effort to bring RIA to the SharePoint world.

But not just RIA style usability, I believe we pushed the envelope even further by incorporating not only DeepZoom (SeaDragon) for ‘zoom in to the pixel’ resolution, but the 3D extensions not present by default

(you have the essentials but only the amazingly talented people behind the Hard Rock Memorabilia site (vertigo) have shown this style of combined zoom/3d that we have seen in any largely deployed sample).

Click the image here to launch the Silverlight 2.0 cross-platform goodness.

NOTE: A prize goes to the first person to email us at: innovate@domaindotnet.com the exact number of seconds it would take to complete the ‘applying attributes’ to the .gif file (you need to see the demo to understand).

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I just created my first Deep Zoom Composer project.  I added all of my Windows 7 install screenshots to a Deep Zoom project and then simply published them on Photo Zoom.  This was surprisingly easy–no coding required.  To zoom around in this set of images, click here.

silverlight deepzoom wurde im rahmen der hard rock memorabilia recht bekannt. jetzt gibts auch 45 gigapixel aufnahmen von yosemite. ongoing project. silverlight required

I seriously start thinking that the various Microsoft labs are getting up to speed lately. There’s one innovation after the other, see that new 3D viewer I blogged about some days ago, but know that there’s even a lot more than just that: Sphere Surface, Touchwall, Popfly, DeepZoom, … etc etc.

It aren’t always big-ass tables though A couple of days ago I noticed pptPlex on my buddy Steve Clayton’s blog. pptPlex offers an interesting way to make slide decks less linear and makes it possible to add visibly very small data to slides that can easily be shown by zooming in and out of slides while in a slideshow. I had to see this for myself first of course and it really is quite an interesting add-on for Powerpoint. Download it and let pptPlex do some of it’s work on an existing slideshow and you’ll quickly discover what the possibilities are once you really build a presentation to make the maximum use of this.

See it in action:

More videos and download of course at Office Labs. Check out the other projects while you’re at it

Microsoft’s DeepZoom Composer  lets you create photo collections that you can zoom deep into. The effect is awsome. EverZoom.com is a web site that lets you upload your DeepZoom collections to share with other people or to embed in your own web site. It’s a brand new technology made available in Microsoft’s Silverlight. The photo collections can be viewed on Windows or Macs. You can view examples at EverZoom.com and you can learn more about uploading your photo collections to the web site by reading EverZoom’s Learn More section.

Lendo meus feeds hoje de manhã encontrei essa aplicação muito legal usando deepzoom com modificação de layout da fotos randomizado e outros. Vale a pena conferir.

http://projectsilverlight.blogspot.com/2008/07/deep-zoom-rendering-in-2-different.html

Pra quem ainda não conhece o Silverlight estarei falando mais pra frente sobre ele e dando exemplos de aplicação da versão 2.0 . Para mais informações acesse http://silverlight.net

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Olá pessoal,

A mesa redonda de hoje à tarde foi um sucesso! Eu e o José Berardo – professor diretor da Especializa Treinamentos – ministramos nossas palestras e tiramos as dúvidas da platéia sobre Silverlight e Ajax. Infelizmente o palestrante que iria representar o Adobe Flex não pôde comparecer, mas isso não nos impediu de ter uma tarde muito instrutiva e positiva.

A minha palestra foi pequena (apenas 20min) e pensando neste pouco tempo, preparei uma apresentação sobre Silverlight feita em Silverlight.

A idéia é bastante simples: uma aplicação Silverlight no formato DeepZoom com 3 seções cada uma falando sobre aspectos diferentes da tecnologia: o que é, quais as vantagens de usar e a compatibilidade das aplicações.

Para quem quiser opinar, melhorar e usar em suas palestras, a apresentação fica à disposição aqui: Ver | Baixar

“Hope this helps”

Até a próxima!

Thanks to John for the following link…

Check out this great functionality by combining Silverlight and DeepZoom.

There are some tremendous opportunities for expanding the online experience.  Any ideas?