World’s Largest Spherical Photo (18-Gigapixel Awesomeness)(techcrunch.com)
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World’s Largest Spherical Photo (18-Gigapixel Awesomeness)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/18/spherical-panorama-photo-18-gigapixel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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non blog-spam version here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003255
My quick math tells me that this is the equivalent of an 11x zoom (cheap binoculars, or a consumer camera's zoom) over typical human visual resolution (~1 arc second) -- in every direction, simultaneously. Very cool.