Louisiana Plant Identification
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2009 Archive

::: What's New ::: A new feature has been added to the site: the ability to pan and zoom on high resolution images of plant features. Using the Zoomify™ software, images have been "tiled" to allow large image sizes to be downloaded quickly, and allow the user to zoom into areas of iterest interactively. The most recent families added are: Aquifoliaceae, Bromeliaceae, Cornaceae, Ebanaceae, and Myrsinaceae That is a total of 35 families. You can check the sitelog (below) and previous progress on the 2008 Sitelog. My next goal is to complete another 15 familes of the 73 families on the site, to bring the total to 50.

::: Coming Attractions :::   Many more "Zoomified" images. At some point, we will finish the text descriptions for the virtual tour site pages and complete the descriptions on individual species pages. Of course, I will continue to update and add species images as they become available.

12 November 2009: Corrected sugarberry page: Cornus occidentalis to Celtis occidentalis Thanks for the heads-up...bad proofing! Otherwise, not much done this year.  I'll get back to it over semester break, I hope. msb

26 January 2009: Updated species pages in the following families to have images that are "Zoomified": Aquifoliaceae, Bromeliaceae, Cornaceae, Ebanaceae, and Myrsinaceae. This brings the total number of families with "zoom-able" images of important characteristics to 35 families. msb

23 January 2009: Updated species pages in the following families to have images that are "Zoomified": Annonaceae, Asteraceae, Platanaceae, Rubiaceae, and Rutaceae. msb

13 January 2009: Happy New Year! I finally got back to working to "Zoomify" images. I am currently working on the Platanaceae. I have tried a different version of implimenting the FlashViewer code (which shows the zoomed images) with Javascript to cut down on the number of files needed for the site. I think it works OK. But you can check American sycamore; just click on the thumbnails, then the "zoomify image" link. Let me know if the image comes up OK, and which browser you are using. Hopefully, I can make some good progress now to get the rest of the families done. msb

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