Gigapixel Pictures are so darn cool

About a year ago, I put a link on here about an 80 Gigapixel of London that I thought was so cool.  Seems there are more pictures like that out there.  For the uninitiated, A gigapxel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (10⁹) pixels (picture elements), 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera. Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images usually involves either making mosaics of a large number of high-resolution digital photographs or using a film negative as large as 12" × 9" (30 cm × 23 cm) up to 18" × 9" (46 cm × 23 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end large-format film scanner with at least 3000 dpi resolution.

Now that the clinical explanation has been reviewed, check out Gigapan and PCMag for some eye-dropping pictures.