[Commons-l] not Djakota, IIP :-)

[Daniel Schwen]

Hey,
inspired by the Djakota postig I whipped up a little wrapper around
IIP [1] and VIPS [2]. It is basically the same think as Djakota, but
as a compiled fast-cgi program (rather than Java).

A couple of examples:
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=LC-39_Observation_gantry_pano.jpg
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=Chicago.jpg
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=Seattle_7.jpg

The examples use a flash viewer, but you can append &flash=no to the
urls to get a Javascript viewer.

It should work to replace the names with arbitrary images on commons,
but new images will have to be processed into a pyramidal tiled tiff
image (with jpg compression) first. That takes time, about a minute.
After that the image is cached and the viewer appears immediately. Be
warned, there is no visual feedback that anything is happening while
the image is processed. So be patient and try a reload after waiting a
minute or so.

I'll write a gadget to integrate this into commons (the gadget will
only appear on images with a certain minimum size).

Best,
Dschwen

[1] http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS