Friday 28 January 2011

The Infinite National Park

The Infinite National Park: "

Have you ever seen those posters where the picture of something — say, a Shuttle Orbiter — is made up of littler pictures? The main picture is divided into a gazillion little squares, and each one of those squares is another picture. It’s pretty cool; from a distance the picture looks fine, then up close you can see all the little pictures making it up*.


Not sure what I mean? Then check out this awesome interactive National Park picture put up by National Geographic.


When you go to that site you see this:



The yellow square defines a "region of interest" which you can move around. When clicked, you get a zoom:



See? Again, the yellow square, and again when you click, another zoom:



Coooool. Technically, you can keep on doing that forever, but in this case it drops a few levels and then you get a description of one of the component pictures.


This is a pretty nifty way to get people to click around, look at amazing nature photographs, and then actually learn ...

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