Dogs Photomosaic Deep Zoom
I was inspired by Rob Burke's LOLCat photomosaic here:
http://robburke.net/2008/08/08/fractlol/
and needed a good test case for my Silverlight Streaming API helper class, so I created a photomosaic of my own. I also wanted an excuse to show off my 10 year old daughter's photography ability. I started with an awesome photo she took of our puppy:
Then I pulled a few thousand photos of dogs from Flickr (individual photos are licensed to the original owner) and fed it through AndreaMosaic http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/. There are also a couple of surprises in it if you can sniff them out, all 3 of our pets actually make a cameo in this photomosaic.
Then I ran it through Deep Zoom Composer and uploaded it with my SLSExplorer (more on that hopefully tomorrow). It took about an hour to upload the 8000 or so files and 200MB that made up the deep zoom image, so mission accomplished. From what I understand, this is much better performance than most people have seen who have tried other methods of getting their applications uploaded. Again, more about that later. Here is a screenshot of the result (click the screenshot to launch the actual app) :
And a link to it here: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66997/dogs/iframe.html