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!"

Comments

Re:For which screen size?

[pushing-robot]

The size of your monitor isn't significant; it's the dot pitch that matters. Almost all current desktop LCDs are between 0.25mm and 0.275mm; if they scaled the image for the middle of that range, it should be accurate to ~5% on regular monitors.

Consider also that not all whales are the same size. At birth a blue whale is around 7m long. A large adult can exceed 30m. "Life size" is not an exact number.

I don't think they need to add a disclaimer just because some guy out there might decide to view the site on a large format (+very high dot pitch) display.

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