This picture is worth a thousand pictures

tl;dr<p>Photographer stitches together thousands of photos as a two-dimensional panorama. Very impressive and very beautiful, but the "hyperphoto" nomenclature might be a bit bombastic.<p>Direct links to each photo:<p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/cour-de-marbre/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/cour-de-marbre/</a><p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/versaillesversailles/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/versaillesversailles/</a><p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/escalier-de-la-reine/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/escalier-de-la-reine/</a><p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/versailles-city-hall-stairs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/versailles-city-hall-stair...</a><p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/cle_de_voutecle_de_voute/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/cle_de_voutecle_de_voute/</a><p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/bibliotheques-ideale-1bibliotheques-ideale-1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/bibliotheques-ideale-1bibl...</a><p><a href="http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/telephones/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/telephones/</a>

Cool pics, but not sure how much innovation there is here. <i>He takes additional liberties with the images, duplicating sections in symmetrical ways to create elegantly surrealist landscapes.</i> It is alot harder (ironcially) to do large scale and make it look "normal." Ie. he's masking some of the real difficulty, one of which is alluded to in the piece: <i>Since the light changes as he shoots, matching colors presents another challenge.</i> Subtle things like inconsistent light make Going beyond "uncanny valley" very difficult. But using an "Alice in Wonderland" (hall of mirrors, etc) effect/approach helps subvert the issue.

The last picture of the gorillas and the cell phones reminds me of <i>Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait</i> by Chris Jordan, which is one of the most amazing things I've seen for putting numbers into perspective (in this case using detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs)<p><a href="http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/</a>

I was a little disappointed by the lack of resolution. I remember seeing some of these, one with mindblowing resolution. As the article states "You can see a closeup of the statues nose" it turns out.. you can't. You can see a full-screen of the statue itself, but that's about as far as it goes. While that's impressive, it's hardly cutting edge and overselling it makes it more disappointing than just presenting it.

These pictures are so overexposed my brain has difficulty parsing them. Detail like this is not what is expected in photography, but the subject is.<p>A truly great photo is not about what you found, but what is already there. <a href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU4OTI3MDk4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjgyMzM2._V1._SX331_SY450_.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU4OTI3MDk4MV5BMl5Ban...</a>

Flash is required. If you do not have it (nor use it), like me, you will not be able to see much.

If MC Escher took photographs.

Wasn't Microsoft Research working on a technology similar to the 'hyperphoto'? It collated numerous photographs of the same location and allowed the viewer to navigate through multiple dimensions of the space.

Some of the clipping paths/layer edges on the first one are pretty rough toward the top. But a neat idea. It’s really more a collage than a “hyperphoto”. David Hockney – more known for his paintings than his photography – has done something similar, but with an emphasis on the image being composed of multiple photographs, not attempting to create the illusion of one continuous photo: <a href="http://www.hockneypictures.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hockneypictures.com</a>

A 3D game company should hire him so we can walk around inside those things. :)

If you want something to scroll into check out <a href="http://www.360cities.net/london-photo-en.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.360cities.net/london-photo-en.html</a>

<a href="http://zoom.it/" rel="nofollow">http://zoom.it/</a> is much older, seems much faster, and you can create your own.

Thanks for sharing. I thought it would be awful, but it was deeply profound in a strange way.

I'd like to make these desktop pictures - any suggestions on how to get the files?

Very cool. Pixels aside, even. Very visually interesting art.

Zoig...crashed

Panning is a pain.

This has been done for years to produce gigapixel images. In fact, there's even commercial hardware to make them easier to make (see: <a href="http://gigapan.com" rel="nofollow">http://gigapan.com</a>). As this made headline news when it was done for President Obama's inauguration back in January of 2009 (among other examples), can someone clue me in on why Slate thought this was novel or new?