Creating Panorama Using Deep Zoom Composer .....

Guys You All Would Be Using the Deep Zoom Composer For Creating Silverlight Enabled Deep Zoom Applications. Deep Zoom is very nice technology evolved through the Seadragon Technology.Now The Online Version Of Deep Zoom is also available called as Photo Zoom ( also called as Seadragon Ajax Technology ).


See More Details At http://www.livelabs.com/ - Microsoft Live Lab .

Read Details And Blogs About Seadragon Ajax At : http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/

But Today We Would Be Learning To Create The Panorma Image Using The Deep Zoom Application And Integrating Them As Silverlight Web Apllication Or As Seadragon Ajax application which could be embedded or uploaded to any web site or blogs. I will to embedd my Panorama Image as Seadragon Ajax Window Into my Blog.


Let Me Give Basic Introduction to Panorama ....... What Is Panorama ?????? Dictionary Meaning Is -- " Unbroken View Of A Surrounding Region ". In Simple Words We Can Say " A Nice 360 Degree View Of A Place or Scene ". Here We Would Be Describing This Panoramic View Using Image Into The DeepZoom.


Lets Start With The Creation Of The Panorama Image ..................


***** Make Sure You have Following Things Well In Advance *****

-> Latest Version Of Deep Zoom - December 2008. It Can Be Downloaded From Following Link ( Just A 4.1 Mb Download - Relatively Less Than The Previous Versions Downloads ) : DeepZoom Composer Download

-> Latest Version Of Silverlight Runtime - Silverlight 2.0

-> Images That Would Form Panoramic View When Stitched Togeteher In Series - Say Photographs Photographs Of An Area Clicked Continously With Very Small Change In The Clicking Angle.


1. Start The Deep Zoom Composer.

2. Start A New Project. Save It With Any Name ....... Say Panorama

3. Now You Will Get A Similar Window As Shown Below. Here You Need To Add Images To your Project . Just Select all The Images You Have Ready With You. They
Will Be Added One By One To The Project ........



4. Now When All Images Get Added .... switch To The next Window - Compose Window Which Allows the Composition as We Did While Creating DeepZoom Silverlight Application.


Now Select All The Photos By Pressing "Ctrl + A" . When All The Photos Get Selected, Just Right Click. U will get a menu With following options -- Remove
From Project, Create Panorama,etc.

Select " Create Panorama " and A new Window will appear as shown in figure ....


The Project Will Now Stitch The Photos,Align Them In Order And Then Produce the Panoramic Image To You .. as shown in figure ....






5.You will be asked to save the Panoramic Image -- Select Save Panoramic image. After saving the Image will Be Automatically Added To the Project ...



6. Drag The New Panoramic Image Into The Composition Window/Canvas. Note: Only New Panoramic Image Should Be Dragged Onto The Composition Space .... The Same Place where we dragged our images while creating DeepZoom Applications ....




7. Now After Dragging The Image .... Adjust The Image To Fit The Screen As U Like ...

8. Now Click On Export Tab To Export Your Project ..........






Select Export As - Silverlight Project to create a Silverlight Project With DeepZoom. An HTML Page With Your Deep Zoom Application Will Be Created And You
Can The Deep Zoom Output Soon into the Browser.



Select Export As Seadragon Ajax to create a new Seadragon Ajax Project which could be Embedded Into The Web Sites And Blogs .......
You Can Embedd The Seadragon Ajax Project Onto Your Blog Or Site. Refer the Link For More Details : http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/embed-viewer/


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This is a nice option to create Panorama Of Images And Just Add them To The Deep Zoom Silverlight Project To View Beautiful Panoramic View Of A place ...........

But You Can Also Use The New Technoogy -- Photosynth (http://www.photosynth.net/) too to create a Synth of Your Images Using The Application ....... Read My Previous Blog Articles For Reference On How To Create The Your Own Synth Using Photosynth ...

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I have also created a Seadagon Ajax Project Of A Panoramic Image Of My Old Hostel Room ......

You Can Watch It At My this Blog Page ...... I have Added These
Photos As Synth to The Photosynth .... just search "Aashish Singh Negi" at the Photosynth's Home Page and You Will Get My Synth - My Hostel Room In the
Results ...... I have Uploaded other Synths too ...... You Can View Them Too ................

Thanks For Visiting The Blog ! Keep Visiting !


Aashish Singh Negi
SIT Lonavla
negaashish2008@hotmail.com

Get Started With Silverlight .........

Hey All My friends (FE,SE,TE,MCA) from SIT Lonavla ........ I know I was going to take a session on 'Developing A Rich Interactive Application (RIA) Using Silverlight.....' but I was unable to take the session due to various reasons such as tight schedule,unavailability etc .

For Your Ease I have Blogged The Info I was going to share about Silverlight during the HOL session. May be u get to know little bit/byte about Silverlight Through This  ..................

• The First Question Comes To Mind That What Is Thing 'Silverlight' ?

If We See The Internet Definition " Silverlight Is A Cross Browser, Cross Platform Plug-In for delivering next generation of .NET  based Media Experiences and Rich Interactive Application (RIA) For Web."

• Whats this cross browser,cross platform,RIA,etc. ? Not understable ....

In a simple human understable language " Silverlight is a tool through which Designersand Developers colabrate with each other more effectively using their excellent skills to develop or produce next generation web experience."

• How Many Versions Of Silverlight Is Available ??????

Silverlight Was Previously Known As WPF/E ( E stands for Everywhere ) .

Silverlight 1.0 was release at first which had a XAML support.

The next And Current Version Is Silverlight 2.0 which C# as Programming Language.

• Links To Know More About Silverlight .......

1. http://silverlight.net - Official Site For Silverlight
2. http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com - Blogspot Of Vikram Pendse, PUG Member  ... He Frquently Blogs About Silverlight.
3. http://learnvisualstudio.net
4. http://groups.msn.com/puneusergroup

• Practical Demos/ Practical RIA Applications Online 

1. http://silverlight.idvsolutions.com - Virtual Earth Using Silverlight
2. http://photosynth.net - Photosynth Based On Seadragon Technology
3. http://silverlight.metaliq.com/topbanana - Top Banana ( Very Nice )
4. http://silverlight.net - Silverlight Official Showcase 

Thats All For Today Guys ...............................

Keep Visiting To get More Info About Silverlight ................................

Photosynth ...... Its very NICE Technology !!!

Photosynth -- A new technology under Microsoft Live Labs created during Year 2006-07. The Technology Is evolution of Seadragon Technology. In my view Microsoft has launched a great technology ...............


Photosynth was born of a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington, based on the groundbreaking research of Noah Snavely (UW), Steve Seitz (UW),and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research).


A Collection Of Photos Is Taken And By Identifying Similarities Between The Given Images (Like sides,windows,doors,etc) The photos are virtually joined with each other. All The Photos viewed together results in a good VIRTUAL TOUR or SYNTH.

U can also experience Photosynth.

-------> Just Head On to .................

http://livelabs.com/photosynth

Requirements For Photosynth :

1. The PC must be hving Windows Vista Or Windows XP(SP2 or SP3).
2. The Photosynth depends upon the graphics of ur PC so U must have Graphic Card.
3. U need IE7,Mozilla 2 or 3. It doesn't work on IE8 Beta....I tested it.
4. Download an installation from the site and install it.

U will find PHOTOSYNTH TOUR of many places like

1. Taj Mahal,India
2. Smith Towers

and many more ............................

U can create ur own SYNTH .....................

U just need to register on the site ..... & need a Live ID to create the SYNTH .............

After U get registered, click on CREATE NEW SYNTH ..........

It will open up a new window of Photosynth 2.0.1403.6 on ur PC.

Just Add number of photos there ............ The software will automatically judge ur photos,fix them, match them and then upload them and U will be able to view ur SYNTH ............




View My Synth : Search for Aashish Singh Negi On the Photosynth's Site ................




U can also share ur Synths with ur family & friends ........... Enjoy the new technology ...............

Enjoy It ............................ Be A Techno Person ...................

Sinhgad Institute Of Technology , Lonavla

My College Sinhgad Institute Of technology lies in beautiful valley of Lonavla.
U may see the Sinhgad Lonavla Campus while Travelling from Mumbai To Pune
either via Railway or via Mumbai Pune Expressway.

The campus is contructed in magnificent vicinity of Lonavla. The campus holds
about 3000 students. The Campus has all facilities like Medical, Gym, Swimming Pool,
Bank & ATM, Stationary Shop,Hotel etc.

My College is Sinhgad Institute Of Technology, Lonavla. Its an Engineering College with
various branch intake in Information Technology(IT),Computer Science(CS), Mechanical
And Electrnics & Telecommunication(EnTC). Our college's principal is Dr. SS Inamdar.
He is a great & nice person. He is very much worried about all the students of the college.
He does eveything for his students. He started value addition programme for technological
development of students.

In all it is a very nice campus ............................................