Frankie,
very interesting find, thanks for sharing.
As a side issue, you rate it 10 for not using Silverlight and -1 for
using Flash over JS.
But have you (or anyone) found a good JS solution for doing similar
things (progressive zoom)?
The only decent one we have found is Seadragon (http://livelabs.com/seadragon/
), which is also from Microsoft, developed as an alternative to
SIlverlight.
Even that has the issue of traceable images,so someone armed with
enough patience could re-build a large hi-res image, like it had
happened for the (in)famous NPG/Wikipedia story - using Zoomify tiles.
My guess is that any tool of this kind will need access to a folder
where the images are - which are in this case open to exploitation,
unless they were stored as binaries objects in a DB.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Cristiano
On 22 Sep 2009, at 18:29, Frankie Roberto wrote:
> Okay, so I'm a little late to the game here (the series finished
> airing last
> month), but I've just stumbled across the BBC's 'explore the
> paintings'
> microsite for the Desperate Romantics series:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/desperateromantics/paintings/
>
> There's only 6 paintings (one per episode), but wow, you can really
> zoom in
> (and in full screen too). Plus there's an audio commentary. Although
> I think
> the main attraction is that, if you've watched the episodes, you
> already
> know a bit of the backstory behind each of the paintings (albeit
> somewhat
> fictionalised), so there's an instant celebrity factor that you
> usually only
> get with works like the Mona Lisa and Tracey Emin's bed.
>
> Tis a shame however, that even though the individual museums get a
> credit
> and a link (yay for the Tate and Lady Lever gallery), these links
> simply go
> to the website homepages, rather than a specific page about that
> painting
> (with a different type of interpretation).
>
> Anyway, I think the main lesson from this, is that one way of engaging
> people in your collection is to spend a few million on a TV drama
> about
> it... :-)
>
> Frankie
>
> P.S looks like the agency who produced the microsite was Cogent
> Design:
> http://www.cogent-design.com/case-studies/case-studies-BBC.htm and
> the flash
> zooming library is from Zoomorama: http://www.zoomorama.com/ (+10
> for not
> being in Silverlight, -1 for using Flash over javascript).
>
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