Ever seen a 13 Gigapixel picture?

What can you do with a picture that contains 13,00,00,00,000 (that's 13 x 10^9,or thirteen billion) pixels of information stitched into the very fibres of its being? You can do more than just stare and adore it;using the Flash software plugged-in to your browser,you can zoom into the image to such an extent that you could probably catch people's expressions on their faces.You can navigate the photo in a way that will feel familiar to anyone that has worked with Google Maps or Google Earth. It's truly amazing how far you can zoom in on details in the panorama. Truthfully, the subject matter is maybe a little bit disappointing, since there are many other obviously more picturesque settings that would benefit from this treatment.

This image has been done using Kolor's Autopano Pro panorama stitching software.Apparently,a very large number of photographs are taken with a high resolution camera before they're "stitched" into a single ultra high quality Gigapixel picture.Wikipedia has some useful info on Gigapixel imagery(and provides a 1 Gigapixel picture as a sample as well):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigapixel
This site has some good info about how a GP pic is made:
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm

Oh,and I haven't forgotten the 13 Gigapixel picture.Here's the link:

http://www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com/