No, I'm not talking about the fabled beast that eats unsuspecting sea travelers , but the amazing new way to view photos. Seadragon is a new software that challenges the traditional conventions of viewing photos on your screen.
Why should the amount of data held on your screen be constrictive? They only thing that should effect your viewing experience is the amount of pixels on your screen at any given moment! How is this possible? Zoom... We have had it for years... but now it is finally being used to its full potential.
How much space do you need to view a book on your screen? Well, to read it you need more than one; its too much information. But with Seadragon the entire collected works of Shakespeare could appear in one photo, and you could zoom in and out of each work, each act being a chapter, or read each work one word at a time if you wanted, but that you have free reign to zoom in and out upon it until the desired resolution is found. When you zoom out all the way, it is just one photo of maybe 30 or 40 on your screen, each of varying sizes in reality but blown up or shrunken to fit on your screen according to you wishes. It is very fluid and intuitive, and clearly the next step in photo viewing software. It has been bought by Microsoft, which means that we should see it in commercial products soon.