Gigapixel Project

I've known about this project for a while. Basically this team has put together a Gigapixel camera... yes, GIGA, meaning over 1000 megapixels. They go around the world taking cool photos of cool and ordinarily ordinary things and super resolution.

MSR (Microsoft Research) has put together a "Gigapixel Viewer" that allows you to view and zoom in on Gigapixel photos of their own (they aren't related to the other project). It uses ActiveX so it only works in IE. It's like Google Earth for photos!

http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/HDView/HDGigapixel.htm

For instance, here is a link to a climber on the Squamish Wall photo.
Here is a link to an airplane in the Kerry Park photo.

Here is a link to the Gigapxl project and other photos, although not in as cool of a viewer. They zoom in on interesting parts of the photos.

http://www.gigapxl.org/