Wow – I really hope this spreads fast, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, has recently, (last two years maybe), been trying some cool new things, similar to this on a smaller scale and they’ve also been producing some small-scale soft-news videos.
I love and respect the amazing work of the photogs that work for the PG and would love to see some of their work displayed this way.
Check out Newsweek’s Olympics coverage if you haven’t already concerning remote cameras. Donald Miralle has some great shots of some of the setups here..
<ahref=”Vincent Laforet .
“>here. has a some great info and comentary on this technique as well.
I think this is thanks in large part to Flash’s new bitmap smoothing feature that makes it possible to dynamically render/re-render an image in different resolutions in pretty high quality.
What this does is allow you to display a single image in different resolutions without having to pre-process different versions of the image in various resolutions (depending on the user’s monitor). This didn’t exist before Flash 8/ActionScript 3. It’s a really cool feature.
In fact, I’m working on a redesign of a website for an architectural photographer where continuous resizing on-the-fly is a feature.
Back in the day, if you wanted to dynamically serve various resolutions, you had to use a super fast, expensive back-end technology that would resize an original hi-res image to the desired size in a matter of milliseconds. Now you can just load one image and just let Flash Player figure out the rest.
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Didn’t ZOOZOOM do this in the year 2000? Eight (8) years ago! Full screen imagery. Revolutionary.
well yeah but these are newspapers. it only took them 8 years to figure it out. that’s warp speed.
You are so right. It is warp speed for them!
They did a multimedia piece on William Safire about 2 years ago or more, and I can’t find it now. But it was way ahead of its time for them.
so what if they’re not up to speed on everything image related…it’s still ball-tickling imagery. One day …dammit.
Wow – I really hope this spreads fast, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, has recently, (last two years maybe), been trying some cool new things, similar to this on a smaller scale and they’ve also been producing some small-scale soft-news videos.
I love and respect the amazing work of the photogs that work for the PG and would love to see some of their work displayed this way.
Really nice.
Did you notice that on one of the last fram you can see 2 cameras wireless controlled?
Ok I really like multimedia presentation.
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Check out Newsweek’s Olympics coverage if you haven’t already concerning remote cameras. Donald Miralle has some great shots of some of the setups here..
<ahref=”Vincent Laforet .
“>here. has a some great info and comentary on this technique as well.
P.S. Sorry, not trying to hijack this thread! :)
blah my bad. ahref mistakes, the links are here:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/archive/tags/Donald+Miralle/default.aspx
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/archive/tags/Vincent+Laforet/default.aspx
I think this is thanks in large part to Flash’s new bitmap smoothing feature that makes it possible to dynamically render/re-render an image in different resolutions in pretty high quality.
What this does is allow you to display a single image in different resolutions without having to pre-process different versions of the image in various resolutions (depending on the user’s monitor). This didn’t exist before Flash 8/ActionScript 3. It’s a really cool feature.
In fact, I’m working on a redesign of a website for an architectural photographer where continuous resizing on-the-fly is a feature.
Back in the day, if you wanted to dynamically serve various resolutions, you had to use a super fast, expensive back-end technology that would resize an original hi-res image to the desired size in a matter of milliseconds. Now you can just load one image and just let Flash Player figure out the rest.
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