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It all started when someone hung a photograph of the World Trade Center attack in an empty storefront in downtown Manhattan during the dark days of last September. Crowds gathered to see the photo, and people began posting their own pictures of September 11-related events. Soon, the walls were covered and lines began to form with onlookers and those wanting to post their own images. Born from this impromptu image gallery was Here Is New York (www.hereisnewyork.org), a not-for-profit charity organization.

The original intention of the postings was to sell some of the photographs for charity. In time, the storefront became a full-fledged gallery, and a Web site was created to display the images as well as serve as a memorial and permanent record of that tragic day.

Through Viewpoint's ZoomView technology, the organization is able to enhance the online images, showing the greatest detail at the smallest file sizes possible. "It was an easy, two-minute process to covert about 100GB of images to the ZoomView format, which was done through ...

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