National Geographic's New Infinite Photograph

[freneticoinsano]

Leonardo Dicaprio says: Mother of God!

[kiyotewolf]

ahem.. * cough cough * there's a pixel in my throat

[EBaryshnikov]

You may create photomosaics using "Artensoft Photo Mosaic Wizard"

[miyu2002]

Got here from QI twitter. :3

[XsamgX]

It's not infinite, it's repetitive.

[milkfishman]

yeah! well said. sounds true thou.

[geekgirl45]

Frogs infinitum. Nice.

[unclesss9]

Thats.. impossible!

[WallaNutz]

Photomontage with self-referential images... all the images are made up of other images all in the same set... Infinite or Infinite Loop?

[Saighton]

The thing I first noticed is that when it gets to the stage where the zoomed-in, slightly pixellated image changes to the montage of photos, there's an awkward transition. It's not a smooth zooming-in to that montage, which is what one would expect if it was truly what it say it is... This looks like a CUT to a montage of photos, not an infinite zooming-in. Run out of RAM??

[Saighton]

So, if it is actually really cool as it's supposed to be, then the video of it is not showing it in the best light, so to speak... that's all.

[Jokker88]

What they've done here is collect a very large set of photos, i'm guessing around 256, they've then made a color palette where one photo corresponds to one shade of color, probably by taking the average pixel color form each photo and then assigning that photo to the corresponding shade in the palette. Then they create a program which at the first stage show a normal photo, then when you zoom the colors are simplified and each pixel is replaced with a photo.

[Jokker88]

so while you might be able to zoom infinitely, there is only a limited set of photos

[toonviewer]

Well said.

[tulsaguy1974]

5 stars! this was really cool.

[rikhanz]

lol... that's funny actully, along with awesome technology

[Xg3niu5]

I use da internet to do everything

dats the trick to my smarts

ask me a questions

I know the answer I bet ya

[pikacz81]

who's in bed with ur mom when ur father isn't home?

I bet u don't know that ;)

[doldei]

people are so stupid...zoom in on paper....wtf ? are we even the same species ?

[currysteph]

are WE REALLY SURE we are constantly zooming IN and not just seeing a new photo...

[kenkopin]

Um, of course it's a new photo. I don't think that's the interesting part, actually. :)

[Hounsfield]

lets see them do that on a piece of paper. so what if its on a computer that can change with zoom

[RAGpikczers]

1:01 Globox :p

[tfujiwara1]

Udderly frogtastic.

[ELuhn]

It's frogtal geometry.

[pddwatch81]

It's also toadally awesome.

[ELuhn]

Ribbiting, in fact.

[pddwatch81]

I agree, but some of the comments here have been a tad polemical.

[ELuhn]

Well, this was pun, but now it's just gotten lily. Amphibian a little pithed. Kermit me to take my leaf.

[pddwatch81]

Croaky! So this is the end....

I have enjoyed our little web feat: making silly comments riding on the back of this video.

Every comment sends ripples across youtube community... just something I was pondering earlier..... might we have spawned something!?

But no, how many will come here? They're all watching clips Susan Boyle. OK I admit I'm jealous. In fact you could say I'm.....

Well, so long Eluhn, until we mate again next year!

[baddmanaz]

Hop to see you soon.

[cha0sXT]

they just couldve given the money spent to do this to me.

[HiveRadical]

There's not really much money. They just took a database of photos (which they already had). Assigned certain photos to certain pixles and it's all just throwing together the code and connecting stuff so it loops.

[kingpopaul]

it's better to be for that project than for you

[pddwatch81]

"We have too much digital imaging technology and we don't know what to do with it!"

"well try using your imagination!"

"..... no ....... we still can't think of anything good"

"well I don't know..... just do something random with frogs and Spanish guitar music"

"OK, right you are"

[franka91]

lol

[Nocturnox65]

i wonder whats the resolution of this picture

[bettka]

Amazing :-)

[merkury2]

frogbook jaja

[J44K3]

lmao WTF...

[reject2007]

Facebook for Frogs.

[ingliss]

You mean Frogbook?

[reject2007]

Exactly! From the makers of Kermit'sList.

[MrRAndom5]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS SERIOUSLY I PISSED MYSELF AT THIS I AM ACTUALLY WEARING WENT TROUSERES THANKS TO THIS COMMENT. *phwe*

[ingliss]

But the beauty of wearing a diaper all day is that you can just get someone to change it for you, surely?

[MrRAndom5]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS SERIOUSLY I PISSED MYSELF AT THIS I AM ACTUALLY WEARING SHIT FILLED TROUSERES THANKS TO THIS COMMENT. *phwe*

[keeyoni]

cool but pointless