I’ve been having so much fun with this gigapan photo. A photogrpher clamped a robotic arm on to a rail and used it to take 220 photos during Obama’s inauguration speech. After stitching them together, he had a 1.5 gigapixel panorama.
You can zoom in so far that you can see that both Clarence Thomas and Hillary Clinton have their eyes closed, that there are snipers on the large buildings across the way (I think the Rayburn building), that Lynne Cheney has nifty red gloves on, that Michelle was apparently sitting in a folding chair while Dianne Feinstein was in a comfy padded one, that there some some really goofy hats that are not Aretha Franklin’s and mostly worn by men.
You can see people inside the windows of the White House taking pictures, Newt Gingrich with his legs straight out in front of him, the notes on the bassoonist’s sheet music, and the people casually sitting all over the Artillery Group to the left of the Grant Memorial.
Just to the left of the Grant Memorial can be seen a gentleman holding up a Texas State Flag. You can’t miss it.
The other thing that is cool is people can set up snapshots of the areas they like best. There are almost 500 of these. Some of them help identify some people. Like Michael Jackson? Bill Gates? Yo-Yo Ma and Iztak Perlman? Denzel Washington?
With a little help, I bet almost everyone could be identified.
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