Viewzy

Viewzy is a website that allow you to make text based research and display result content in a different way ( chronologically, spatially... )

I have made a test that allow to see image cluster based on text information. I start with architecture, and add "Paris" and "Tour Eiffel" keywords and you see the result clusters.

The cronotron allow to see the emergence of ideas and concept across time :

Let's do a try with the project "Building Rome In A Day"

http://www.viewzi.com/search/cronotron/building%20rome%20in%20a%20day

First we will find the starts (the CVPR09 paper) and the buzz around the project, the user review and the fact that a lot of people do not speak anylonger about the project.

The birth, the live, the death... cycle

Try the different alternative, web screenshot... and others ... You will like it

Source Viewzy

SnapDragon Javascript powered Seadragon

SnapDragon is a Flickr tag explorer from Microsoft Live Labs.

It's a concept about interactive and keyword based navigation. Search a given keyword will give you photos. Click on a picture will give new keyword... and etc.

Click a word to see related images.
Click an image to see its tags.
Click an image's title to go to its Flickr page.
Click the background to go back up the chain.
Drag to pan, scroll-wheel to zoom.
Or just hit the spacebar and enjoy.

It's nice and well done.

Smooth and efficient zooming and panning

It quite hard to find publication related to microsoft labs project (Seadragon, Pivot, DeepZoom).

I have found one about DeepZoom: Smooth and efficient zooming and panning 

The paper explain how to smoothly go from one view to another one (MultiScale space observation).

Photosynth Silverlight 3D

Natively Silverlight do not support 3D display and so I have got this question in head for a while "Which tech use Photosynth to display 3D things in Silverlight ?"

I have found a piece of anwer on a blog about Deep Zoom, a subpart of Seadragon. "Photosynth goes Silverlight"

We can read the name of the person in charge of the silverlight port "Mark Dawson" and also we know the name of the framework that have been used and surely modified : Kit3D

Since the project Kit3D seems to not have been modified for a long time.. I think they have incorporate it in their framework... and maintain it as closed source.

OpenCL debugger

Graphic Remedy announce the future release of gDEBugger for OpenCL™.

Beta subscription here

Selected Features
gDEBugger CL enables OpenCL developers to:
• Locate parallel computing performance bottlenecks
• Edit and continue OpenCL kernels "on the fly"
• Break on OpenCL errors, function calls, memory leaks and more
• View the application's OpenCL memory consumption
• View OpenCL images and buffers data as an image or as "raw data"
• View OpenCL command queues activities and timing measurements
• View the OpenCL calls history
• Display OpenCL and OpenGL interoperability shared objects
• And much more...

The debugger is multi platform as usual ;)

Source : Here

The perfect Macro focus camera

Some people invent some strange machine to make macro photo of flying insect...

But the result looks very good ! Here

The camera setup is explained here . A special part is designed to determine the good focus ! Awesome.

Source : Here

WEB GL javascript engine

WebGL seems gives a lot of javascript library in the past month.

We could see many initiative :

• http://spidergl.org/code.php (Nice Streaming Multi Resolution demo)
• http://www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/index.html
• http://www.glge.org/

All the approach consisting in designing an interface to give access to OpenGL functions. So each initiative is a little High Level 3D engine.

The only drawbacks for the moment is that only nightly build of Firefox and Chrome have WebGL support but it's nice to see so many people want to have something 3D on the web !

But you can see other initiative in flash (no webGl, pure flash rendering) Here

You must definitively see this demo in flash : Here