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 toolkits, utilities 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 make use of the zooming metaphor and high-resolution images: It is freely available under the MPL/GPL/LGPL trilicense.
- Introduction & Demos
- Download OpenZoom SDK for Flash, Flex & AIR (Source Code & Examples)
- OpenZoom SDK API Reference
- Browse Source Code
Showcase
Sites & projects powered by OpenZoom:
- Siemens Windpark
- EU: Climate Actions for a Better Development
- Ole Østring
- DEU TER ROR
- Depot Visuals Art
- Mars Image Explorer
- Just/Burgeff Architekten
- Massagepraktijk Zondag in Eindhoven
- Mockus… Blijf Hangen!!!
- Davey Gant
- Shawn Old
- Flag Thousand
- OpenZoom, Is This Your Luggage
- Gigapixel Photography
- Alba Water
Developer Showcase
Tools & extensions for OpenZoom:
- Python Deep Zoom Tools official
- Ruby Deep Zoom Tools official
- Perl Deep Zoom Tools
- PHP Deep Zoom Tools
- Java Deep Zoom Tools
- MagickTiler
- Haskell Deep Zoom Tools pre-alpha
- Ghost Interactive Overlay Extension for OpenZoom SDK
- Overlay Extension: Examples
- Overlay Extension: Download
Inline Multiscale Image Replacement
Easily publish insanely large images on the web in a way that kinda doesn't suck:
GigaPan Desktop & GigaPan Mobile
See the 1.47 Gigapixel Obama photo on your desktop or iPhone/iPod touch/iPad:
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: