Hi Mike
Check out the OpenSeadragon site for some good, up-to-date information around display and image conversion: https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-images/ <https://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-images/>. There are a wide range of options around now for conversion - if you’re handy with a procedural programming language then you can do a lot quickly but even without that there are still some good solutions. If you’re not preprocessing then you need to be using an image server like IIPimage which requires some quite careful tuning on the server side for performance.
As a client Seadragon is nice because it ‘feels’ the most performant of the currently available solution. And it implements inertia when you pan, which is always cool...
If you go with OpenSeadragon then give the Wellcome Library’s Player a look: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/02/open-sourcing-the-library/ <http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/02/open-sourcing-the-library/>
All best
Paul
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> On 3 Nov 2014, at 21:49, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> I'm looking for an easy to use deep zoom solution - easy as in easy to
> implement from a code point of view but also hopefully from an image
> processing point of view. Some of the options I've seen need the big image
> to be tiled which is an option but obviously would require a fair amount of
> grunt work / automation to get there.
>
> Any tips appreciated. Goes without saying that I'd like to avoid Flash as
> well as dependence on 3rd parties.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
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