National Geographic’s Infinite Photograph Is A Giant, Beautiful Photo Mosaic
National Geographic’s new Infinite Photograph turns over 300,000 amazing photographs into a “boundless picture of the earth.”
The embedded video gives you a pretty good idea of what you can expect. Lots of amazing photographs of Mother Nature that just keep on coming.
Infinite Photograph—As Seen on Earth [National Geographic via CNET]
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So just frogs then? Still, pretty cool.
termitehead
@David Gilling: I too, call shenanigans on this one.
SJRNWT
Must admit, seems very fake to me. The smaller images appear. Could be wrong (probably am)... don't care really.
David Gilling
@David Gilling: I'm not sure they're actually trying to claim that each photograph is initially built of the photos contained within. I think they turn mosaic after the first click. But yeah, I don't think the point of the site is to show off mosaics, but to show off incredible photos.
actually this reminds me of the iphoto screensaver in Mac OSX
...and if you want to look at something other than frogs?
fiji.siv
@Phoshi: Agreed! lol
bbobjoe
@fiji.siv: Why would you want to do that?
Lame. Over half the pictures are the same picture repeated. If it was 300,000 unique photos, that would be amazing. Let me reiterate: Lame!
ahow628
@fiji.siv: go to the website... not just frogs
timisdaman
I for one welcome our amphibian overlords.
Janglesatwest
beautifual?
_Jonny
Silly Nat Geo, you need to learn to stop overexposing your pictures... Oh, nevermind, I think my office is filtering video content. Lame.
tonysimpleman
WTF wow. That is sweet.
BrianB
Another site killed by serial killer LH.
Anyway...from the video it kind of sucks seeing only frogs.
@Phreakazoid: Just click through ... the real thing is more entertaining than the informational video.
@ahow628: try changing to a new color and you'll see new images. Plus the cool thing is that these images will change as submissions are sent to MyShot.
I think it would've been better as turtles all the way down.
Seems like the same photos over and over though. For "300,000 photographs" there doesn't seem to be much variety.
Anskiere
@ahow628: you're right. They shoulda used FLAC. Had they done that, the photos wouldn't be compressed and you'd be able to see that the picture wasn't actually repeated, but in fact very different pictures of the same subject. FLAC!
Wow.. this is REALLY cool! For all those complaining that it's 'just frogs' then go to the actual site. It has a bunch of nice photos.
califrag
amazing
Witherslick
Should be immediately repurposed as a porn application.
zarathustra
This totally trumps the frog mosaic I've been working on for 7 years! What will I do with my life now!?
KHANV1CT
@Reis: Funny, I hope people got that
Papa_GB
You really need to go to the actual link and not just the demo video. The demo is all frogs for some reason, but in the actual site they are all different pictures.
wstanley
I'm sure some is already working on it.
cool!
EditorinChief
The video is just a demo. The real thing is here: [www.thegreenguide.com] Each photo is composed of 200 to 500 photos.
@_Jonny: more like beauti-FAIL
-emory-
Wow mosaic to the extreme.
If this were my wallpaper...:)
Willy Thong
@David Gilling: Well, the photos aren't crisp enough to be the real thing. I think they use an image of the mosaic at the furthest zoom just so that it's less stressful on the app.
That would be my guess.
look at the actual site you muppets!
Chris Schulz
look at the actual site you muppets!
Chris Schulz
reminds me of:
+ Watch video
look at about 3:20
ewerybody