Sharing the Love of Zooming. Yours, @OpenZoom.
The OpenZoom Project promotes and supports the use of high-resolution images and Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) on the web. OpenZoom provides frameworks, tools and documentation to enable you to create great user experiences.
OpenZoom SDK
The open source OpenZoom SDK is a toolkit for the Adobe Flash Platform that enables you to easily build powerful applications, beautiful sites and stunning maps which use a zooming metaphor and high-resolution images. It is freely available under the MPL/GPL/LGPL trilicense.
- Introduction & Demos
- Download OpenZoom SDK for Flash & Flex (Source Code & Examples)
- OpenZoom SDK API Reference
- Browse Source Code
Showcase
Sites & projects powered by OpenZoom:
- Alba Water
- Gigapixel Photography
- OpenZoom, Is This Your Luggage
- Tim Gillissen Photography
- Flag Thousand
- Shawn Old
- Davey Gant
- Understanding Data – A dissertation by Henry Hadlow
- Mockus… Blijf Hangen!!!
- Massagepraktijk Zondag in Eindhoven
- Just/Burgeff Architekten
- Mars Image Explorer
Developer Showcase
Tools & extensions for OpenZoom:
- PHP Deep Zoom Tools (NEW!)
- Java Deep Zoom Tools (NEW!)
- Ruby Deep Zoom Tools (NEW!)
- Python Deep Zoom Tools
- Ghost Interactive Overlay Extension for OpenZoom SDK
- Overlay Extension: Examples
- Overlay Extension: Download
Inline Multiscale Image Replacement
Find out how to easily publish insanely large images on the web in a way that kinda doesn't suck.
GigaPan Desktop & GigaPan Mobile
Want to see the 1.47 Gigapixel Obama photo on your desktop or iPhone/iPod touch?
With GigaPan Desktop & GigaPan Mobile you can.
Zooming Community
Got stuck while using the OpenZoom SDK? Want to give feedback on one of the OpenZoom projects? Want to share an idea you've had? Join the OpenZoom community.
Are you also in love with zooming and want to hang out with like-minded people? Join our Zooming community. You'll be amongst people from Microsoft Seadragon, Prezi, Zoomery, Lila.io, Mosaic Maniac, GeoGarage, Ghost Interactive, Zoomorama and of course OpenZoom.
Zooming Jobs
Looking for people with insane zooming skills for a project? Send your job/project ad to @zoomjobs.
You love zooming and want to work on awesome projects that are in desperate need of your zooming skills? Promote yourself & your services on @zoomjobs.
OpenZoom: Behind the Scenes
Ever wondered how high-resolution images are delivered in a efficient and smooth way on the web? Learn more about the theory, principles and algorithms behind multi-scale imaging on the web in this three part series of how I brought Deep Zoom to Flash:
