Check out this uber cool photography project. The artist is stitching together a 30 mile long seamless photograph of San Francisco. Unfortunately he’s only publishing the complete project in a very limited set of 2000 or so, but the notion is excellent and there are cool sample shots on the site. Years ago a friend and I considered trying to build a ‘virtual’ downtown portland by shooting QTVR’s on the corners of all the streets, an idea that had occurred to me after remembered a Nova (or some other PBS program) I had seen while in high school about a team of scientists who were experimenting with Laser Discs back when they first came out, and they built an entire ‘virtual’ version of a city by shooting photos every ten feet or so in each direction from within a car, which they then stitched together on an interactive laserdisc so that you could ‘drive’ through the city on your television. This was like mid-80’s and cutting edge stuff at the time.

Anyway I still love the idea and so far as I know there are not a lot of projects to build this kind of stuff. There are