Tile server technology for non-geographic data?

Wondering if someone here can put me on the right path to finding research, algorithms or open source software for serving tiles that aren't geographic in nature. I suppose I'm also interested in client side software that exposes the titles to web users.

开发者_StackOverflow社区Everything I've found seems to be tightly coupled with mapping. However, it seems like there are other potential applications based on the same technology. For example, I have a huge photograph I want to break into tiles and allow for zooming and panning similar to Google Maps.

Why do you want something that isn't geographic in nature? A tiled view is a tiled view.

A colleague of mine programmed MagickTiler, which basically works with every image. You can view the files using OpenZoom or other tile viewers.

MagickTiler is a Java library and utility for converting image files into formats suitable for publishing them as high-resolution, zoomable Web images.

MagickTiler also includes options for batch processing and quality control, supports a wide range of image input formats and the following output formats:

• TMS tileset
• Zoomify tileset
• Google Maps tileset
• Pyramid TIFF (PTIF)

Try these softwares to make the tiles on server side:

• GeoServer
• MapServer
• GeoMedia WebMap

Basically, these softwares get information from some database(including images) and build the tiles. To make the controls on client side like google maps you can use openlayers that is a javascript library.