Life-Size Photo of a Blue Whale
Smivs writes "The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have posted a navigable life-size photo of a blue whale! It will take a while to look at all of it, but it starts at the eye (which is a great idea). The picture is navigable — there is an insert of the whole picture and you can change the view by moving a cursor around — but if you just let it run, the whale will slowly 'swim' past you. It's a bit like being in a submarine with the whale going past a porthole. Definitely worth a look!"
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The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have posted a navigable life-size photo of a blue whale!
I already have a life-size photo of a blue whale, thanks.
Of course, from my 5MP digital camera, that means a resolution of only 2dpi, but still "life size" in the sense that it would take 110ft (by a couple dozen rolls wide) of plotter paper to print.
That was the first useful use for Flash I've seen. I liked how when your cursor went over the "close" icon it says "Think before you close this window. This may be the last life sized blue whale you will ever see".
;)
Kudos to the presenter, and thanks to the submitter. When is Google Earth gong to be life sized?
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What does "life-size" mean? Isn't it dependent on the screen size?
A 22" monitor has %34 larger area than a 19" one. Since the whale is 3 dimensional, it translates to a difference of %55.
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On what size monitor set to what resolution?
They should know better than advertise specifics on Slashdot without thinking of the details...
One of the most horrifying experiences I've ever had was at the National Museum of Natural History and seeing the Blue Whale replica as a small child. Thanks for bringing those memories screaming back to the surface.
Why don't they have some kind of method to stop the "swimming"? At least I didn't see one. It's kind of annoying to be frank about it.
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It's really nice regardless, but it looks more like a high-res CG render.
after only 10 comments... anyone have a mirror?
I have life-size map of the US. The scale says "1 mile = 1 mile".
When people ask where I live, I say "E5".
[Thank you Steven Wright.]
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
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which got /.-ed...
It's just a painting. I thought the article said photo :(
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This calls to mind a wonderful book by one Kees Boeke... who I assume is no longer alive... published in 1957 and entitled (in its English translation, anyway) Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps. The book is a series of more-or-less realistic drawings, starting with a girl sitting in a chair in a Dutch school playground, then zooming outward, picture by picture, each picture drawn on a tenfold smaller scale than the next.
The third or fourth picture shows a blue whale, which, for some reason, managed to beach itself in the school playground.
After ascending outward to show a cluster of galaxies, it then resumes in the schoolyard, zooming inward, tenfold larger each time. I recall that the girl has a small cut on her hand--to give later opportunity to zoom in on blood corpuscles--and, again for no good reason, there happens to be a copepod (of all things) lying on the edge of the cut!
Later, the same theme, with explicit acknowledgement to Boeke, was pursued by Charles Eames and Philip Morrison in a photographically illustrated book called Powers of Ten, and an animated movie of the same title by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. The medium-scale shots are aerial photographs of Chicago's lakefront area, perhaps the Museum of Science and Industry, and I guess are undoctored photographs... no whale in it, anyway. Too bad.
Both books are absolutely marvellous, real mind-openers for nerdy kids of the right age... (Click, click) Can it really be that both are out of print? A shame...
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wrong whale type. ST:IV had humpbacks.
Drat, I think you're right. I was really looking forward to mapping out all of the interesting barnacles or something.
But come to think of it, this is really something we need more of. Especially of humans. You'd think the porn industry would already be on top of it.
But haven't spotted the pot of petunias yet.
;-)
Go on, flame me till I'm charcoal about it being the wrong type of whale... you know you want to
Or is my flash not working? =)
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I can't wait for the Cmdrtaco version. Here's to hoping there's a "Steet View" option!
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!