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I've been lost in this picture for an hour.
Paris 26 Gigapixels is a huge, HUGE, panorama of the city of Paris made up of 2346 photos that you can dive right in to.

Very cool.

My half-brother lived in Paris for about 5 years, and I spent many long weekends(and a few longer trips) in 1996-97 hanging out there. His apartment not too far from where that was shot from.

One time, I broke his skylight and had to climb up on to the roof of his building(scary!) to put cardboard and plastic over the hole to keep it from leaking until someone could come out to fix it. The view from there was very similar.

Paris is the most amazing city I've ever visited. I don't care what people say about the people there being rude or snooty.

Funny thing . . .

I am so used to seeing amazing things like this, that I spend more time being wowed by the spectacle, than actually thinking about the technology that makes something like this possible.

Rabbit_Fighter wrote:Funny thing . . .

I am so used to seeing amazing things like this, that I spend more time being wowed by the spectacle, than actually thinking about the technology that makes something like this possible.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

There's nothing particularly interesting about the the tech behind it though. A tripod/mounting system that allows you to move your camera in small measured increments and software to stitch the photos together. A web client like Zoomify to display and navigate it. You can do the same kind of thing, in more limited scope, pretty easily. Even with a phone.

There is a blog with some behind the scenes making of info linked from the site.

rolly wrote:

Rabbit_Fighter wrote:Funny thing . . .

I am so used to seeing amazing things like this, that I spend more time being wowed by the spectacle, than actually thinking about the technology that makes something like this possible.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

There's nothing particularly interesting about the the tech behind it though. A tripod/mounting system that allows you to move your camera in small measured increments and software to stitch the photos together. A web client like Zoomify to display and navigate it. You can do the same kind of thing, in more limited scope, pretty easily. Even with a phone.

There is a blog with some behind the scenes making of info linked from the site.

Precisely my point. This is pretty basic stuff compared to other technology out there, yet it would have completely blown my mind a decade ago. Software for auto-stitching photos together has been around awhile, but for a long time it was pretty sloppy.