Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web with Zoomifyer.
Django, Framework, Graphics, Web Performance
I’m working on the next post in my series exploring Django, social networking applications and related technologies and issues. That post is going to focus on basic user authentication and account management and take an introductory look at the django-registration contribution, and so, the post should also have more general applicability..
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The basic Zoomify Image software works pretty solidly as it is, although it still has some notable shortcomings. Performance is still a major issue for multi-Gigabyte images, and of course, this software will always be somewhat slower and less scalable than the official Zoomify Inc. software, which is written in C. Using modern hardware with a lot of memory and using the most current version of Python are easy ways to squeeze out a little more performance. On the software side, I want to eventually add the ability to plug in third party image processing libraries, and in particular, I want to write a plugin that uses ImageMagick, which I believe may be a better fit for this software and increase its speed and ability to handle larger images.
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