Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> For this project, there is really only a handful of big images, and simplicity of server-side is a priority -- so I think it's actually okay to pre-render all the tiles in advance, and avoid an actual image server -- to the extent tools can work with this. 

to make static tiles:
for deepzoom vips[1] is the faster. as version 7.30[2] you can run
$ vips dzsave huge.tif my_dz_dir
deepzoom.py[3] is another option, but slower.

if you want to consider zoomify (usable with a leaflet plugin)
there is zoomifyimage[4]. inside the package in
contrib/netpbm_shell_script you'll find a bash script[5] wrapping netpbm


--
raffaele, @atomotic



[1] http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
[2] http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=What%27s_New_in_7.30
[3] https://github.com/openzoom/deepzoom.py
[4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/zoomifyimage
[5] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0f8e623561b7ae57ff88