Photosynth Prototype

http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/photosynth-prototype

How did they do it? I'm not talking about that panorama bullshit but about 'Seadragon'. How can you process such huge amounts of visual data so quickly? It brings my PC to its knees looking at gigapixel images but this is supposedly resolution independent.

Discuss.

Scalable
for a moment i though you where talking about the industry or something.