Hi,
I am planning to create a photomosaic using uploaded pictures that people submit on a website. Once those images are processed and included in the mosaic I need a way for people to zoom into their picture within the photomosaic. The image needs to be uploaded with some sort of metadata assigned to it - either the uploaders email address or an automatically assigned code....
We then need to get the image metadata to be targeted within the confines of the overall mosaic so that when the uploader enters their email they are shown thumbs of their submitted images and then when they click on teh thumb they are taken directly to their image in the mosaic.
I am basically trying to figure out how to mimic any of these campaigns:
Lexus:
http://archive.teamone-usa.com/ismosaic/prelaunch/ (find via email address)
Save the Tiger :
http://www.panda.org/how_you_can_help/campaign/endtigertrade/viewer.cfm (find via code)
Pedigree :
http://www.milliondogmosaic.com/pedigree/mosaic.php (find via code)
The software that i have purchased and hope to use is called Mazaika
http://www.mazaika.com/. I also plan to use zoomify and any other web technology/programming that will enable me to achieve this.
With the mosaic software you are able to save some information that will be useful (i think) for this task.
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1:
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Menu File - Save Mosaic - Output setup screen save as "save as *.txt"
*.TXT - Text list of images. Only filenames are saved as a delimited text file to use as an image map.
form of a file:
row , col , filename
001 , 001 , picure1.jpg
001 , 002 , picure2.jpg
001 , 003 , picure3.jpg
002 , 001 , picure4.jpg
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2:
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Menu File - Save Mosaic - Output setup screen save as "save as HTML Table"
HTML Table - Mosaic saved as simple clickable html table.
Thumbs and large images that was used as a tiles are copied to different subfolders.
you may open HTML file in some text editor to see where different images are
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3:
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also one option:
Menu File - Save statistic:
This option allows you to save statistic of image usage to the comma delimited file.
Times used File Name Tile positions Col x Row (Flip) 1, C:\Pics\hny0002.jpg , 18x6 1, C:\Pics\hny0003.jpg , 2x16 1, C:\Pics\hny0010.jpg , 15x14 3, C:\Pics\hny0017.jpg , 7x1 16x1 19x9 1, C:\Pics\hny0023.jpg , 17x9
i.e. picture C:\Pics\hny0017.jpg was used in mosaic three times it can be found at cells: 7x1 16x1 19x9
- I am not a programmer by any means but thinking it through I think it should be possible to use the third option - for instance 1. resize all uploaded images to 100*100 pixels - 2. Center pixel of each tile is at 50x50 - 3. User enters their email address and php retreives all of their thumbs from mysql. - 4. User clicks on a thumb and this is associated with metadata and that image is located at 'cell' 16x1 (pulled from csv?) - 5. Calculation 16x100-50 = 1550 1x100-50 = 50 = center pixel that they sumbitted is at 1550*50
So basically i think i need a way to zoom into that pixel on click. Am i over complicating things here?(i guess it kinda works like google maps - enter your search - finds the lat/long of the place - zooms into tile/pixel associated with it?)
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Neil
