Archive for the ‘Zooming & panning’ Category
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Maps and newspapers, because they're rich in graphic information, benefit greatly from a zooming and panning interface. Text-only books, because they're more linear and because text is easily searchable, don't benefit from this sort of interface as much, but books with pictures certainly do.
zKimmer.com has recently implemented Google Maps technology ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Magazines, Maps, Navigation, Newspapers, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning, eBooks | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Looking at Google Newspapers has got me thinking that the same sort of zooming-panning interface that's used in that, and in Google Maps, could also be used for viewing books. An example of this is shown in the screenshots from videos on Seadragon linked below.
Seadragon is a zooming-panning technology, owned ...
Posted in Maps, Microsoft, Navigation, PicsYes, Seadragon, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning, eBooks | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
A useful thread in exploring panning and zooming is the concept of the zooming user interface (ZUI). Demos of this are especially valuable because they give a detailed view of the power of panning and zooming for navigating an online environment that integrates text and pictures. An elegant example of ...
Posted in Navigation, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Google recently announced the launch of Google Newspapers. The first issue (and apparently the only one up currently) is the 1969 We're on the moon edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
What caught my attention here is the ability to pan -- to move around on the large newspaper page with the ...
Posted in Google, Navigation, Newspapers, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning | 2 Comments »
