National Geographic's New Infinite Photograph

Check out the video of this new Web app from National Geographic. It's called Infinite Photograph and is live today at www.ngm.com/infinite.

The browser-based program features stunning user-submitted photography from the natural world to create a massive As Seen on Earth photo mosaic that you can navigate by clicking on color patterns to create an infinite number of photograph mosaics.

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Science & Technology

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• photography
• cool web applications
• digital photos
• photo sharing
• national geographic
• earth day
• landscape photography

[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.

[ELuhn]

It's frogtal geometry.

[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.

[toonviewer]

Well said.

[Jokker88]

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