Surface Photo Gallery

Ernest Delgado has created The Canvas Photo Experiment – a UI implementation that closely follows the “photo table” application of Microsoft Surface – with the exception of multi touch due to there only being one mouse cursor.

This is one of the most impressive demos to Surface so far

This is one of the most impressive demos to Surface so far

Implementing this in canvas presents two main challenges: drag & drop and performance. I tried several approaches to solving these problems, and ended up using a multilayer solution which renders only the active image on the top-most canvas layer. This allows us to have drag & drop without needing to redraw every image each time one of them is dragged.

View the canvas demo

There are Flickr (by Michael Johnston) and Picasa (by Pamela Fox) implementations also available.

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Type:
Applications, Photos
Author:
Ernest Delgado
Posted on:
July 6th, 2009
Posted by:
Andi Smith
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Christian

Is it possible to get contact details on Micheal Johnston, or maybe you can write me?

Posted on October 11, 2011

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