Comments on: National Geographic's Infinite Photograph will mesmerize you

Publication has a new online photo wall that creates an infinite mosaic out of users' uploaded photos.

[tipoo_]

Wow, that was impressive!

[W1gglesnarf]

wish i could see it =/

[sythara]

you must be using Safari.


j/k

[Chapmaniac]

Wait - Safari can't play a simple flash YouTube "video?"

[d3vildog69]

I can't see it either... but thats cause websense is on :p

yes im using safari

[Breezy1601]

Not that big a deal, really but clever. It just re-grids photos based on overall color/shade every time you zoom in, thus the illusion of constantly drilling down, into multiple layers. In reality you're just rearranging the grid based on color/hue/intensity with any zoom in point once your images have gotten small enough to be just shades.

This little trick will be copied by everyone soon. It's a great bit of outside the box thinking.

[andres_cor22]

It would be awesome the same effect but backwards... getting out of the picture and building another one surrounded it.

[blish]

that's a lot of frogs!

[lee4646]

umm. this is far from new. we did this on kodak.com over 10 years ago. And the Flashpix file format is just what this is used for, and Flashpix file format is already (sadly) obsolete.

And there is a major infringement of Rob Silver's patent on Photomosaics. NG, you really ought to know this. And you shoulda done your research on photography before claiming credit, whether it was one developer or 100.