Jason Dunn
09-16-2011, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/' target='_blank'>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"We have the technology to take massively high resolution images today--so-called gigapixel images, those containing a billion or more pixels--but what we've lacked, until now, was a suitable and intuitive way to navigate those images. Samuel Cox, a masters student in digital imaging at Lincoln University, offers what may be a solution, reports The Engineer. Cox isn't an astronomer or a biomedical student, but the system he devised might someday apply to those fields. Cox, an artist first and foremost, decided he wanted a more interactive way to experience photography."</em></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="323" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28636369?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="575"></iframe></p><p>I love it when multiple technologies are brought together by creative people - this artist combines a Kinect with gigapixel images to create a beautiful and fun way of navigating around them. Oh, and there's a snapshot printer too! Very cool stuff here.</p>