Seadragon

Photosynth incorporates a technology that Aguera y Arcas designed — and discussed in a widely circulated lecture last year — called Seadragon, which can zoom and pan with incredible smoothness over millions of pixels.

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But the new program Aguera y Arcas was demoing, dubbed Seadragon, made every transition seamless and lightning fast.

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Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

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Seadragon and Photosynth create an interface that will make working with text and images on a screen preferable to working with paper.

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Photosynth is the brainchild of Blaise Aguera y Arcas, he also created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities.

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Although companies don't reveal their investments in this area, Microsoft has almost quadrupled the number of employees working on Seadragon since the acquisition, to nearly 40.

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Seadragon is an application for interacting with images, graphics and documents.

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Seadragon, on the other hand, starts downloading everything at once, but it downloads only the bytes that you're viewing at any given moment.

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On a Seadragon-based browser, search results could show a small replica of each Web page, for instantaneous judgment.

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More broadly, Seadragon could become the basis for a beautiful Web browser.

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