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Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

For those looking:

1. Of the 3 mountains, look at the peak of the center one (Lhotse).

2. Below that, the right half is big chunky snow, and the left half is smooth, icey looking snow.

3. Look at the line where the smooth left half meets the chunky right half. - Halfway up that you can find CAMP 3. [You'll see little ant people marching up that centerline - follow them to their tents.]

Also once you see CAMP 3, you actually see tracks in the snow. There's a manmade line going diagonally up/left across the center mountain, up the rock face, and then continues up/left to the little snow valley where Everest hits Lhotse along the horizon line. I suppose somewhere around there is CAMP 4.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#43

Wow, I was thinking to myself: "Jeez, look at all that trash those climbers have left on the mountain!" Then I zoomed in some more, and realized the "trash" was actually tents.

Jesus, it's imposing. How small the tents are in comparison to even the ripples of snow at the base of the mountain!

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to post that- about the mouse movement. It's absolutely driving me nuts. Makes no sense.

I think it's just an artifact of pre-tablet era interaction design (not that this software was actually written all that long ago). Nowadays it seems perfectly reasonable to imagine clicking and dragging the image around in order to pan -- I'm not confident that particular interaction would have even occurred to a lot of people a few years ago, though.

Drag to pan has been around for decades now. The inverted acceleration-style interface was designed to accomodate a joystick.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#45

Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

Those are tents, not a line of garbage.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#47
post #41

Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

For those looking: 1. Of the 3 mountains, look at the peak of the center one (Lhotse). 2. Below that, the right half is big chunky snow, and the left half is smooth, icey looking snow. 3. Look at the line where the smooth left half meets the chunky right half. - Halfway up that you can find CAMP 3. [You'll see little ant people marching up that centerline - follow them to their tents.] Also once you see CAMP 3, you a…

Wow! Roughly 50 odd people like ants visible up to halfway there and many below near the foot of the central peak.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#48

Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???

I came to post that- about the mouse movement. It's absolutely driving me nuts. Makes no sense.

It might help if you think of it as directing the camera instead of moving the image. When you click and drag left, you're telling the camera to look to the left.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#49

I'm amazed not by the mountain - but by the size of the camp in the valley. I knew a lot of people climbed Mt Everest, but that't practically a small city.

I felt the same way. There must be so much garbage on that mountain.

Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

#50

Very cool, but the inverted acceleration panning is incredibly difficult and frustrating to use. I gave up after a few attempts to zoom and pan.

If you think "I'm moving the camera on this tripod" it suddenly becomes very natural. It worked for me anyway.
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