Huge Photo of Vancouver Zoomable, Feeds Inner Voyeur
By Malcolm Owen | No CommentsLeave a Comment
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 8:42 pm

I’m sure that everyone in the world has tried Google Maps and loved to zoom in on streets to see their car on their driveway. But what if you could do that to photographs?

No, I’m not talking about normal photos of people posing. I mean of panoramas, such as of a group of skyscrapers. With people inside.

Well, apparently it’s all doable, thanks to Gigapixelphotography.com. They’ve somehow managed to take a really high resolution shot of some buildings in Vancouver, put it onto a page powered by Flickr and allowed people to zoom around it in the vain hope of seeing someone in a window wearing just a towel.
It seems to be working in a similar way to Google Maps, by making the image into tiles at various levels of detail and then only loading those that are needed. I dread to think what the full size image’s resolution and file size would be.

Sadly, it’s down thanks to a massive audience, but I would guess it will be up again once the people at Digg have left it alone…

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