Seadragon Mobile Review: A Dragon on the Move
-Smooth transitions
-Ability to add your own sets
-Narrow selection
-Lack of creation app
Apple and Microsoft have long been rivals in the field of computers but a few days ago marked a rather impromptu “collaboration” between the two: the launch of the iPhone app, Seadragon.
Seadragon is a project which is part of the Microsoft Live Labs, an experimental application warehouse of sorts. The idea behind Seadragon is to allow you to “infinitely zoom” on giga-pixel sized images. The application was originally developed on Microsoft’s Silverlight for the PC platform but the people over at the Live Labs have adapted it for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Right out of the box Microsoft includes several example images and sets for you to play around in. They include a 1898 artist’s rendering of Milwaukee, aerial images of the United States, NASA’s Blue Marble, and many others. Microsoft also allows you to add your own “Deep Zoom Content” and content done by Photosynth users. When choosing a set instead of an individual image, you can hit the play button at the bottom of the screen to allow you to look at the set’s images individually.
Seadragon was obviously developed for the iPhone because of the multi-touch “pinch” zooming capabilities as the multi-touch allows you to navigate through the image very easily. When zooming, you are basically transitioning through images, and this transition is very smooth but occasionally takes a fair about of time (~10 seconds). If you ever try running it online, the transition is much quicker, with a noticeable load time rarely happening.
The application is very impressive at first use, but after using it a few times the “novelty” wears off. Microsoft offers an application Deep Zoom Composer, which is only available for the PC and PhotoZoom, which is an online app but is very lacking. If Microsoft was to offer software for us Mac users, this app would be much more useful.
Microsoft has the Seadragon app listed on the iTunes App Store for free.
It’s a pretty cool app. The maps I think are more impressive (especially graphically) than Google maps, but sadly there’s no search function because essentially they are just images, and not (yet) interactive.
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Great tool, but we see witht their collaboration with Photosynth and the “porn scare” how quickly it can all come crashing down, even if you toe the line.
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