authoring Flashpix? other zoomable file-formats?

From: Guenter Waibel (guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 17:09:58 CST

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Date:         Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:09:58 -0800
From: Guenter Waibel <mailto:guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      authoring Flashpix? other zoomable file-formats?
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    <pre> Hi everybody,

    at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, we are currently researching ways to present zoomable high-end images on our website. The format should have plug-in support for Netscape/Explorer and Mac/PC, and should dissallow people from downloading the entire high-end image while just serving out the requested chunks.

    One of the solutions I'm looking into is Flashpix. I have been hunting hi and lo on the web for information on how to author Flashpix images on a Mac. I couldn't find any leads on the Kodak site
    (original developer of Flashpix), nor at digitalimaging.org, the website of the consortium which took over Flashpix development. A number of links directed me to http://www.livepicture.com/ with the promise of a free Photoshop plug-in for authoring Flashpix, but the link rolls over to a company called MGI (I'd hazard the guess that they bought out livepicture). MGI does have a Flashpix plug-in embedded in their RealityStudio software - however, it's neither for free, nor will it run on the Mac.

    Please let me know if you have any information about authoring Flashpix on the mac, or if you have any experience with other file-formats offering a similar functionality such as MrSid.

    Thanks!

    Guenter 

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