I’ve gotten a couple of emails from the folks at Zoomify about their software product for use on Arts ConnectEd. Sounds like the enterprise solution would work just fine for everything we need including the ability to hit an outside script allowing us to save coordinates and zoom levels, they provide example ASPs that save Zoomify data into XML files. I’m sure we won’t use ASP but the example of the XML format they expect to get could be helpful.
The big unknown last time was how we could get the image slicing to happen dynamically since it didn’t look like the Zope Converter on Source Forge was going to really work for us. In the last e-mail they sent over a copy of a PERL/imageMagick script that should handle the slicing server side. Great news since we do almost everything with PERL on the Walker site that should be a good fit.
How can I check out the Perl/ImageMagick script for creating zoomify images?
We use imagemagick and Perl/PHP so this would be a great solution.
Comment by Chris — 5/20/2006 @ 5:20 pm
Chris,
I emailed the folks at Zoomify and they were very responsive about the Perl version, so that’s where I’d start. It was actively being developed when I talked to them but if i remember right it worked well. If i remember right i just used the address I found on the Zoomify page business@zoomify.com
Comment by Eric — 5/20/2006 @ 7:44 pm
The Brain Maps API is a lightweight multiresolution image viewer that lets you view Zoomify images. It has been designed to be small and fast, and to consume very little memory, yet still be very functional and extensible. Future versions will enable you to add overlays to multiresolution images (including markers and polylines) and to display clickable labels. The Brain Maps API is a free service, available for any web site that is free to consumers. Available at http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=brain-maps-api
Comment by John — 8/13/2007 @ 3:32 pm