What is Zoomify?
Zoomify is a tool that web designers use to make images ‘zoomable’, as well as a ‘viewer’ that web site visitors use to zoom-and-pan within a ‘zoomified’ image. Zoomify works by dicing an image into many pieces or ’tiles’ – as in a mosaic. Zoomify performs this dicing on many versions of the image, each at a different resolution or size. The result is a pyramid of tiles which a web site visitor can navigate within to view any part of the image at any level of zoom. Viewing is fast and interactive because each view that the visitor zooms and pans to involves the download of only a small number of image tiles, each of which is small in size. No special server or client software is needed as Zoomify’s solution uses just HTML, JPEGs, and a tiny Flash movie that serves as the ‘viewer’. Zoomify wraps this viewing solution in added-value with custom viewing alternatives supporting slideshow presentations, hotspots, annotations, side-by-side image comparison, synchronized multi-user viewing, a
