To see this one you'll have to follow the link, and don't even think of it unless you have DSL or better. (You also don't want to try this on your iPhone or netbook.)
A view of beautiful Rio that might be quite heartbreaking to hoar-rimed denizens of the Northern hemisphere right about now! (I don't know about you, but we're in the deep freezer.)
I'm not quite sure if this is a "photograph"—maybe a "web-o-graph"?
Note that you can zoom in or out and look up or down in addition to the slow pan.
Mike
(Thanks to Michael O'Donoghue)
It's a very nice image, but I have serious problems with web designers who feel the need to reposition and resize browser windows. It is annoying, to say the least.
Posted by: Chuck Kimmerle | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 09:42 AM
"Service temporary down". Mike, you broke the poor guy's bandwidth! :-D
Posted by: Thiago Silva | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 01:29 PM
(I don't know about you, but we're in the deep freezer.)
Well we're certainly not hoar rimmed here in Pretoria. Two rainy days have pulled the temperatures down a bit but it's been a hot, humid summer so far here.
Posted by: Henk Coetzee | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 02:40 PM
Nice one. Great to see a fellow VR photographer getting a "random" from TOP. Ayrton is also a hardworking stalwart of the (relatively young) genre. Freaky to look down, though...
Posted by: Mark | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 02:48 PM
I'm kinda confused as to how this was accomplished. Does this guy own a jetpack?
Posted by: Jeff Berardi | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 03:08 PM
In the same vein, you want to check out http://gigapix.no/gigapiksel -- the site is in Norwegian, but there are gigapixel panoramas of several Norwegian cities and events.
Posted by: Arve | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 06:09 PM
Hi Mike,
Okay, NOW I know why Rio got the 2016 Olympic Games.
Chris
Posted by: Christopher Lane | Tuesday, 05 January 2010 at 06:57 PM