Tag Archives: panorama

krpano – flash-based tool for viewing panoramas online

By Ari Salomon | Published: December 6, 2009

This is very similar to what GigaPan uses. GigaPan let’s you embed their player for free but this player give you more control and, of course, no external branding. And krpano offers a neat way to switch rendering options. It allows you to publish extremely large panoramas where the user only downloads data as they need [...]

2.5 gigapixels: Milky Way Image Unveiled

By Ari Salomon | Published: December 6, 2009

Bigger isn’t always better but in this case… 120 feet (37 meters) long, 3 feet (1 meter) tall at its sides and 6 feet (2 meters) tall in the middle… The large image was made from stitching together 800,000 individual pictures taken by Spitzer, for a total of 2.5 billion infrared pixels. via SPACE.com — [...]