Check out the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project. The project is expected to be completed in late August 2008 resulting in a single high-res multi-gigapixel image of the Valley. You’ll have to download Microsoft’s Silverlight to view this, requiring a browser restart, but it’s worth it. Very cool stuff.

Utilizing cutting-edge emerging technologies in high resolution photography and 3d rendering techniques appropriated from the visual effects field, the final image will be one continuous, unwrapped panorama of all valley wall faces, assembled from 20 separate photographers positioned throughout the valley rim, all exposing 500 overlapping images in unison in order to achieve a congruency of light.