The image browser was created to fill the need of displaying image galleries in the limited content space on the uat.edu site. It was decided early on that we wanted to do something along the lines of lightbox but we wanted a way to always keep the thumbnails for the gallery easily viewable and accessible at all times. I suggested doing a ring viewer with flash and so this image browser began development.

The final result reads in an xml file and automatically populates a bunch of thumbnails based on the contents. All the thumbnails are spaced out evenly along a ring in fake 3D space. The images are spaced so that you can always see the thumbnails in the back row (until the ring fills up with so many images that you can't see through them anymore) and the images are always selectable from any position they're at within the ring. The image browser itself can hold about 30 or so thumbnails before they start to bump up against themselves.

See a page with the image browser