Chapter 1: Introduction

This course is designed to introduce you to ZoomView, an image transmission technology that enables you to deploy high-resolution images online, over any Internet connection. In the exercises that follow, you will learn how to:

• Export large, print-quality images to ZoomView
• Add animation, interactivity, sound, and HyperView capabilities to ZoomView scenes
• Deploy ZoomView content to the web

About ZoomView Technology

ZoomView is serverless, pixels-on-demand image transmission technology. Viewpoint ZoomView technology enables you to deploy interactive, high-resolution images online over any Internet connection, replacing traditionally low-resolution JPEG images. Viewpoint overcomes bandwidth constraints by dividing high-resolution images into bite-size tiles and delivering "pixels on command." As the user zooms into the image, more and more tiles transmit and display. Users can now inspect minute product details at high-resolutions, with a user experience infinitely better than that of ordinary JPEG images.

To experience ZoomView, use the navigation icons at the bottom of the image on the right to zoom in and out of the scene. Or, use the default mouse interactions:

Left-click to zoom in
Right-click to zoom out
Left-click and drag to pan the camera

How ZoomView Works

ZoomView technology uses image tiling to load only the part of a high-resolution image the user wants to see up close. The illustration below shows how each zoom level provides more detail by providing more .mzv files per level. An .mzv file is a compressed image containing one tile within a zoom level.