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