Endangered Species: Out of Many, One

If you’ve ever wondered what a single composite picture of all 180,000 endangered species on the planet would look like, well, wonder no more: the answer is a Sumatran tiger.  At least that’s the answer Fauna & Flora International, together with UK Silverlight partner Shoothill came up with in this very cool Silverlight Deep Zoom mosiac. 

A couple interesting points about this mosaic – it is almost certainly the largest Silverlight Deep Zoom photo mosaic ever created.  Also, it’s the first I know of to incorporate video within the mosaic.  

Be sure to check out “Auto” mode for a full screen guided tour around the image.

A very different kind of e pluribus unum.

See here to learn how to build your own Silverlight Deep Zoom mosaic. 

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