[From PC World’s GeekTech blog; more information is in a post on MIT’s Technology Review Hello World blog]
Gigapixel Hack Makes Photos More Interactive
By Elizabeth Fish, PCWorld Sep 7, 2011
Have you ever looked at a particulalry stunning photograph and wished you could really immerse yourself in it? A recent project attempts to do just that, with the help of a good camera, a hacked Kinect, and an Arduino board.
Samuel Cox, a university collegue of mine, recently held an exhibition for his postgraduate project, based on interactive photography. Sam invited the public to really explore the UK city of Lincoln and surrounding areas on a gigapixel picture (that’s 1,000 megapixels), and see if he could immerse more of people’s senses when looking at photographs. I went to check it out.… read more. “Project makes navigating gigapixel photos more interactive and intuitive”