Aargh! Now I have Microsoft software on my iPhone. And of course it is as ugly as something designed by a city council commitee and totally unintuitive. But don't send in the Knights just yet: what Seadragon does is pretty darn cool.
Seadragon is a viewer for ultra-high-res images. Imagine a contact sheet with all your 15,992 iPhoto library pictures filling the iPhone screen. You start to zoom in, zoom in, zoom in until a single photo fits the screen. Then you zoom in more and another bit until one pixel fills the screen. Quite impressive
Seadragon comes with a number of interesting images to look at, can connect to the Microsoft Photosynth platform and subscribe to a "Seadragon" RSS feed. However, I couldn't figure out the last two bits since the link to the help page returned a 404... Maybe the Knights would not be such a bad idea after all.
In case you want to take a look yourself, Seadragon's lair is at http://seadragon.com/. Sword and armor recommended.
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You mean MS has discovered the 12-year-old technology behind Macromedia Shockwave for xRes Server?
I remember using xRes professionally. For large images, I would load xRes instead of needing to buy tons of ram for photoshop.
NT Servers? Macromedia? Certainly no iPhone app coming from that end. I did not say that it was a very new or original idea but the seadragon is kind of unique on the iPhone. It is also a remarkable in that it is a Microsoft app that does not seem to be available on Microsoft's own mobile platform.