26-gigapixel panorama of Paris; try zooming in near the horizon

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html

by jacobolus • 16 years ago

36 28 16 years ago

What are all those orange cones on top of buildings? I don't remember seeing those when I was in Paris 5 years ago.

jacobolus2• 16 years ago

Chimneys (specifically, the venting caps (“chimney pots”) on top of chimneys). Here's a Wikipedia image of similar chimneys in London: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chimney.stack.london.arp.j...

jonursenbach3• 16 years ago

Huh, interesting. Seeing all of them there is oddly hypnotic.

slippytoad• 16 years ago

It's a bizarre world when people need to be told what a chimney pot is.

olalonde3• 16 years ago

I wonder what that is: http://imgur.com/ATpQj.png

olalonde3• 16 years ago

Maybe related to the Pi Day ?

Luc7• 16 years ago

The green cross is the symbol for a pharmacy. 3:14 is the time, not the date, since we'd use 14/3.

olalonde3• 16 years ago

Isn't a bit strange that the current time = the 3 first digits of Pi and that there is π next to it?

mseebach2• 16 years ago

If it was indeed 3:14 it'd be night (afternoon would be 15:14), and there's sunlight in the picture.

sounddust• 16 years ago

It's photoshopped in. There are 10 photoshopped easter eggs on the map, placed there by the developers, and this is one of them. Another example is a fake grafitti drawing of what is assumed to be the dev/photography team photoshopped onto the side of a building.

Luc7• 16 years ago

Ok, we have a winner!

Here's a giant roof-turtle:

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-fr.php?x=-31.115224...

If you look closely there is a tiny white number 6 close to his head.

There is equally a tiny number 3 just above the pi symbol if you zoom in all the way:

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/?x=55.64285410150907&...

So it's part of the easter eggs. Damn what a wild goose chase (and a lesson in not making assumptions, you know what they make of you...)

demallien• 16 years ago

Where was it taken? On top of St Sulplice?

jacobolus2• 16 years ago

There are some “making of” blog posts linked at the bottom of that page: http://blog.paris-26-gigapixels.com/en/?p=115

(yes, St. Sulpice)

ximeng• 16 years ago

Aagh upside down scrolling.

simon_kun• 16 years ago

The thing that gets me about most of these flash "explore" widgets (including Street View) is that they don't update the URL with the pitch/yaw/zoom/lat/lng information, making the cool stuff you find pretty hard to share around.

novas0x2a• 16 years ago

Gigapan.org has a snapshot feature for that. 26-gigapixel is bigger than most (all?) of what Gigapan has, but they have a bunch more. The Obama inauguration one[1] is probably their most famous.

I don't really ever get tired of being able to "enhance! enhance!"[2] an image.

1) http://gigapan.org/gigapans/15374/

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

Luc7• 16 years ago

Click the 'Share my position'/'Partager ma position' button at the bottom, among the Twitter and Facebook links, to get a link with coordinates.

JoeAltmaier• 16 years ago

Peeping Tom's playground

mjgoins• 16 years ago

This (flash) site has sound. Horrible annoying, and unexpected sound.

26-gigapixel panorama of Paris; try zooming in near the horizon

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