Talk:FlashPix

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Browser support

The first parragraph reads only the resolution required for the current screen resolution is returned to the browser. Other than the original reference which is now gone, I've found nothing to support this. There are no relevant results for, for example, firefox supporting this behaviour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugo 87 (talk • contribs) 07:49, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In 1995/6 when this format was being developed, browser for scalable images support was limited to plugins. No browser implemented this format natively, and this idea never really caught on as network bandwidth increased to outpace it.

Sean Hayes (one of the engineers at HP that worked on this format) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.220.104.174 (talk) 22:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

> and this idea never really caught on as network bandwidth increased to outpace it.

I wouldn't say that network bandwidth increased to outpace it, actually the zoom-level is unlimited if I don't mistake, but certainly based on the supported material.

Nowadays online-maps like google maps have a similar approach and deliver tiles depending on zoom-level, it's just not delivered as flash-pix. David Bruchmann (talk) 01:03, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I (Bob Free) was the engineering director at Live Picture (who along with Kodak and HP established the Flashpix standard) created/deployed the primary commercial Flashpix server. We implemented it as a REST interface, serving up scaled/cropped images in whatever format we wanted (at the time jpeg, png and gif)... so yes, we supported all predominant web browsers at the time. A browser, or a client-side app would make a REST call to our Flashpix server, requesting format, resolution, and cropping rect, and the server would return the appropriate image.

My team was using our Flashpix server to provide scaled/cropped texturemaps for 3D rendering. We were doing photorealistic 3D VRML authoring/rendering. Most other VRML systems at the time had to download full-resolution texturemaps; we were able to just request (via REST) the pixels we needed for the Level-of-Detail (LOD) necessary to render a given polygon at the appropriate resolution for that distance from camera. As a result, we were able to do real-time photorealistic 3D/VR rendering.

So the claim that browsers could request images at various resolutions is correct: either through a GET URL, or a REST call. The Dubious tag should be removed. Grafman (talk) 15:50, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

> The Dubious tag should be removed.

I think too, that the Dubious tag should be removed. David Bruchmann (talk) 01:07, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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