What ?

Displayator is a program that allows you to display parts of a picture on multiple screens. Think google map synchronized across multiple displays and multiple computers, but with the pcture of your choice.

Why ?

At Cern they have this control room,called CCC with lots and lots of screen side by side, controled alternatively by windows and linux machines. So I thought, wouldn't it be cool to use all those screen to display big pictures ? Thus Displayator.

How ?

There are three agents that form the displayator program :

• a tile server
• a tile displayer
• a displayer manager.

It uses XMLRPC to transfer tiles and commands

Here is my latest post about displayator. Latest release is v0.4 (alpha: works, but not many features).
You can download displayator 0.4

Others ?

• At NASA they have a program called bigview that i didn't know of when I started programming displayator.It apparently is linux only.
• [added : 2008/01/14] There is an open source project called IIPImage that i didn't know of either, which is a client-server image viewer. The server is a fastCGI C++ program. It have both a java and javascript client.