If you have a few minutes and have loaded Microsoft Silverlight, you need to check out the following site by Nike: www.jumpman23mosaic.com

Use the zoom control on the right side of the page to zoom in.

Here is some background:

[ Via Bruce D. Kyle ]

Check out www.jumpman23mosaic.com. It’s a five gigapixel “social mosaic� of photos of Air Jordan shoes submitted by fans.

Windows Azure currently supports the following two types of roles:

  • Web role: A web role is a role that is customized for web application programming as supported by IIS 7 and ASP.NET.
  • Worker role: A worker role is a role that is useful for generalized development, and may perform background processing for a web role.

Fans submit photos of their shoes online. Then every ten minutes Azure worker roles create a profile of new photos. The code inside the worker role looks at the colors in the user-submitted picture to decide where is the “right place� in the mosaic for the photo.

Azure Web roles work on the front end in collaboration with Silverlight Deep Zoom.

 

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