Zooming

 Academie Arnhem Portfolio Map 

The Academie Arnheim have used custom map tiles with the Google Maps API to present the work of the final examination candidates of The ArtEZ Academy of Arnhem. The academie has replaced the Google Map tiles with custom tiles created from images of the students' work. The images represent the artistic work of the students after four years of studying at the acadamie and mark the start of their career as artists, designers or teachers of visual arts and design.

It is possible to use the Google Maps interface to pan around the different art works and to zoom in for a closer work at individual pieces. The acadamie has also done some impressive programming (with jquery I think) to overlay text links on each of the student's work. Clicking on any of the links loads information, directly onto the map, about the art work.

(source Google Maps Mania)

They are developing a Flash based zooming presentation editor called Prezi.

The company has a close relationship with the Kitchen Budapest media lab from which ZuiPrezi concept came.

After the proof of concept application, in 2008 Zui Labs was formed, the project received seed founding, and intense development has started.

http://www.youtube.com/v/nzTOWFmsXzA&hl=en&fs=1

How to create an unusual effect, bright and eye-catching zoom effect :

http://www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/imageready-animation/hong-kong-zoom-exclusive-tutorial.10541.html#ixzz0DIRKgWNc&A

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