I worked on an image viewer for MSN that displays an arbitrary set of photos and lets you filter them based on attributes of each. LINQ is used heavily for the filtering logic. You can also drag, flip, and throw images with an experience that borrows heavily from Surface’s ScatterView component. When you select an image, Deep Zoom lets you get up close to the details. The first app to use it displays a set of celebrity tattoo photos.

The viewer has been reskinned six times with six different sets of photos:

• Pretty In Ink (tattoos)
• Hair and Makeup Shockers (ridiculous hair and makeup)
• Rings and Bling (ridiculous jewelry)
• Red Carpet (awards show wardrobes)
• In Concert (musicians up close)
• Abs and Muscles (buffness)

We were asked to make an cool image viewer for a bunch of celebrity photos, and it sounded really uninteresting at first, but we went pretty next-level on it and made it fun. That’s Stimulant’s style.

This is about a year old, but I’ve been referring to it recently, as the current Silverlight project is also a big world map. The Silverlight Around the World app is used to visualize data from the Silverlight Showcase (which I also built). I can’t prove it, but I think these are some of the most complex apps that were made in the Silverlight 1.0 timeframe. Keep in mind that this is JavaScript, not C#, and Canvas, no Grids. Both use the ASP.NET AJAX component model, and a Cairngorm-style architecture to bring a little sanity and reusability to the code.

The next map/datavis project is all SL 2, Deep Zoom, and other madness, and will launch on microsoft.com… when it’s ready.

A couple of freelance projects I worked on a while ago have gone live. Actually they’ve probably been up a while but I’ve just now noticed. Both are for the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Nebraska.

The first is the quilt collection, which presents 600 quilts in a pan-and-zoom grid, along with details about each and UI for searching the various collections.

The other half is the quilt maker, which lets you make and save your own quilt.

I believe these are also hosted as kiosk apps in the museum itself.

The project was designed and managed by the geniuses at Second Story in Portland. In both cases, I took the apps to a late beta stage, and final production and delivery was handled by Second Story. Both apps were implemented in Flex 3.