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Wow - DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Just tried out the DeepZoomPix Technology Demo – it’s pretty amazing – brings together Azure, Silverlight and Deep Zoom.

I tested it out with some Astronomy photos…

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WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT

The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance, included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from Andy Wilson and Hrvoje Benko.

Microsoft Maps Course to a Jetsons-Style Future

Stuart Isett for The New York Times

Hrvoje Benko demonstrating a Microsoft projection system that lets people manipulate large video images with their hands.

Microsoft Maps Course to a Jetsons-Style Future - NYTimes.com

Microsoft Research TechFest 2009

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Today is the first day of the MSR TechFest 2009 – a showcase of MSR technologies – you can see pictures from TechFest. One of the demos I’m loosely tied to is Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector – which utilizes WorldWide Telescope projected on a dome with gesture interaction. The neat part about it is that it brings together the great interaction (hands) work from Andy Wilson and Hrvoje Benko from the Adaptive Systems and Interaction and Jonathan Fay (no relation)

TechFest is much like a Science Fair – booths to demonstrate new algorithms, discoveries, etc. Great place to wander and dream what the magic of software can do….

TechFest 2009

TechFest is an annual event that brings researchers from Microsoft Research’s labs around the world to Redmond to share their latest work with Microsoft product teams. Attendees experience some of the freshest, most innovative technologies emerging from Microsoft’s research efforts. The event provides a forum in which product teams and researchers can discuss the novel work occurring in the labs, thereby encouraging effective technology transfer into Microsoft products.

TechFest 2009 - Microsoft Research

The Earth, Stars, and Planets in 3D

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT

One of the coolest new features of the WWT Solstice Borealis Beta (released at the beginning of Jan) is the ability to see the Earth, Stars, and Planets in a stereoscopic 3D effect. I’ve been using the Anaglyph mode (View | {arrow} | Stereo | Anaglyph) which uses the stylish red/cyan glasses shown below to not only look at the Stars, but you can zoom all the way out and see the lattice structure made up galaxies of the universe. Checking out the planets, like Mars, Saturn, etc is also very impressive. Going down to Earth, you can change your perspective by holding down the ctrl key and then you can fly into objects like Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens in normal view Mount St. Helens in stereoscopic view

Check it out if you have a pair of red/cyan glasses – they are all the rage :-)

Science Images in Photosynth

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Here are a few really good synths of scientific images in Photosynth. You can find others using Microscopes or Biology. And there is even a Dissected Cat if you have a strong stomach.

Obelia, polyps, golangia by ppberk

Micrographs of powder coating material by SynthSets

Frog Kidney by ppberk

NodeXL for viewing and analyzing network graphs is available again (formally .NetMap)

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:00:00 GMT

NodeXL – the app formally know as .NetMap is available again on CodePlex. NodeXL is a Excel template and addin for viewing and analyzing network graphs. There are a whole slew of updates and bug fixes. Check it out….

InfoMesa Project – Whiteboard for your data

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT

One of neatest apps I’ve see lately is InfoMesa – a project by Sam Batterman – the example is InfoMesa allows any kind of data or visualization to be added to the Whiteboard.

The folks at RENCI are using it in their Social Computing Room (SCR) w/ a 360 degree desktop.

You can download the implementation and code and test it out.

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What is it?

InfoMesa is a project to allow scientists to do more science and more discovery in a collaborative and data-rich environment. The metaphor that we have elected to use as the underlying fabric of the InfoMesa is a Whiteboard.

InfoMesa allows any kind of data or visualization to be added to the Whiteboard. Far from static, these tools are interactive, allowing data to be absorbed from data sources like Oracle, SQL Server, Excel Spreadsheets, XML or even Cloud-based web services. InfoMesa, when complete will support imagery, video, 2D connected models, 3D models (lit in a photo realistically manner), web searches, results from web service calls, Image Tile Maps, ScatterPlots, Sticky Notes, Ink Notes, Rich Annotations and Associations.

An Example of a typical InfoMesa Whiteboard is shown here:

Welcome to the InfoMesa Project - Official Launch - Windows Live