Zoomery

Zoomery Server

Zoomery Server is the world's first - and maybe only - Deep Zoom server, capable of serving literally hundreds of thousands of Deep Zoom images. It is not a standalone product in itself, but instead serves as a framework that products and services can build on. The image you can see below shows a diagram of the typical Zoomery Server based application.

It is - in essence - a client-server based approach of the Zoomery technology. Instead of relying on pre-generated scenes and external tools, we created an integrated, web based server side image repository that uses Deep Zoom through Zoomery to process and show stored images to end-users.

In Short: It is the next evolutionary step of both the Zoomery product line, and the way of handling and presenting Deep Zoom images.

Key Features

Zoomery Server consists of two distinct parts:

Server Core, an ASP.Net library that can serve as the base of any server side application that requires generating and displaying Deep Zoom tiles, scenes, filtered lists, etc.

• Flexible architecture that accommodates a wide range of tasks
• Supports adding, changing and deleting images from a collection without regenerating the entire collection. Adding an image thus only takes a second, even if there are already thousands of images
• Supports arbitrary filtering – this means that we can show the resulting images from any query in Deep Zoom, even if the entire image database has 100,000 images
• Supports dynamic generation of collection images for any such filtered image set for better end-user experience
• Caching support for enhanced filtering performance
• High level of security – even image tiles cannot be accessed without authorization
• Hard drive space requirements and fragmentation are reduced by optimized file storage
• Ability to fine tune compression settings (even per detail level) to find the optimal balance between size and quality
• Marshals metadata to Zoomery Client Core

Client Core is the Silverlight library that works together with the Server Core, providing support for displaying Deep Zoom scenes, requesting queries, etc.

• Handles basic Deep Zoom navigation, such as mouse wheel zooming and panning
• Includes a skinnable Zoom Toolbar that helps zooming in and out without a mouse wheel (must have for notebooks)
• Notifies the Silverlight application when:
  - the user clicks on an image
  - the user moves the mouse pointer over an image
  - an image is “in focus”, meaning it fills most of the screen
• Can zoom and pan the scene so that a specified image fills the screen
• Supports adding overlays to any image by synchronizing its movement with the specified framework element (including zooming and panning)
• Provides API to consume metadata from the server
• Uses WCF RIA Services to communicate with Zoomery Server Core

Demo

Check out the Zoomery Community Gallery, which is a sophisticated image repository built using Zoomery Server.

Contact Us!

If you would like to know more about Zoomery Server or our related technologies, we will be happy to answer your questions. Do not hesitate to contact us.