AmateurSpaceImages.com, A site to gather great amateur-processed space images Options

[kemcab2012]

I've been working on some stuff in the back end of the website today, improving browse display of images and making one-click searches easier. Please make suggestions! I have not tested the layout across browsers so please especially let me know if there are display problems (including which browser/OS you are using).

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-top...ng/amateur.html

ngunn, the answer to your question is yes. I'd enter the images into the database as ordinary image file types but can easily embed zoomify versions below the page-width display of the image.

Not sure if this is intended, but I'm guessing not.



It looks like the margin-bottom for the style class 'item' is causing the first object in the top row to pop up above the others in the following environments:
Windows 7
Chrome 24.0.1297.0 dev-m
Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 (Browser Mode: IE9, Document Mode: IE9 Standards)

I did not experience it in Firefox 12.0.

Looking good, though.

[elakdawalla]

We have recently added two new capabilities to the Planetary Society image archive. We've upgraded the database and display templates to handle 3D images and some types of embedded video.

For 3D images, the database stores in a single item left and right images; red-blue anaglyphs; and flicker gif versions of a single 3D image. It produces cross-eye and parallel-eye versions of the image from the stored left and right pairs on user command. I'm still not entirely happy with how this works but it does function, and I'm going to worry about improving display after I have added more content to the database. Here are a few examples of 3D images in the database:
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...eronilus-1.html
-- http://planetary.org/multimedia/space-imag...john-klein.html
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...-curiosity.html
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...-burwash-a.html

For video, we can now handle YouTube, Vimeo, and Flickr videos within the database. Here are a couple of examples of those:
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...9-approach.html
-- http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-...oach-movie.html

I've recently hired an intern and also gotten a new volunteer who will, I hope, be able to start helping me fill out the database a bit. If you are interested in seeing your images (3D or otherwise) or video in our database and are willing to supply me with metadata for your images for a batch upload, I can do that. I now have more than 500 images in the archive, but I know that that is just scratching the surface.

kemcab2012, the display issue you point out is probably still there. I'm prioritizing upgrades to function over minor design bugfixes.

[elakdawalla]

We've been putting a lot of work into the space images library recently, improving the browse functions to make it easier to zero in on search results. It now contains about 750 amateur-processed images. Check it out:
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/