OpenZoom Squared is a fledgling experiment to enable the construction of large grid-based images from an existing body of files (possibly scraped from a remote website). It then allows people to use deep zooming technology to peruse the grid and click on certain items to open new pages.

The source code has been published for an initial community review and just to get the ball rolling to see who might be interested:

http://github.com/hostilefork/openzoom-squared/

A first test I made was for the ImaginationSquared art project, and an article/video was posted here on September 12, 2010:

http://hostilefork.com/2010/09/12/imagination-squared-plus-openzoom/

Watch this space for more information as the project develops. It was a learning exercise for me but I’d like to see it get some practical use. In fact, it may ultimately become an alternate interface to thumbnail-based systems like Albumist…