Hyperphotos

April 6, 2011 7:16 AM

French photographer and digital artist Jean Francois Rauzier stitches together hundreds of photographs to create massive (zoom-able) images.

If you're short on time, check out "Voyages extraordinaires", "Bibliothèques idéales", "Ideal Cities", and "Babels".

posted by gman (11 comments total)

oooh, love
posted by anya32 at 7:24 AM on April 6, 2011

Wow. I was all like, "So? I do gigapans too. WTF?". And then I looked. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I like it.
posted by Goofyy at 7:25 AM on April 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

I saw the cats!
posted by francesca too at 7:39 AM on April 6, 2011

"Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there."
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:57 AM on April 6, 2011 [2 favorites]

Above from Blade Runner.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:59 AM on April 6, 2011

"Bibliothèques idéales"

Paging Señor Borges -- Señor Jorge Luis Borges.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 8:04 AM on April 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

The skyscraper ones make me feel like I'm playing SimTower.
posted by schmod at 8:07 AM on April 6, 2011

Zoom in this. Amazing, a library with its contents alive!
posted by carmina at 8:41 AM on April 6, 2011

cool load and nice color in photos.
as always gman.
posted by clavdivs at 1:15 PM on April 6, 2011

Very very cool.
posted by bardophile at 3:01 PM on April 6, 2011

This is magnificent. It's like SimTower meets M. C. Escher meets CSI.
posted by notashroom at 5:26 PM on April 6, 2011