I have been thinking about creating a 1 gigapixel photo for a while. It's not an entirely new concept to me. About 15 years ago, at a company called Centrica in Florence, we were tasked with turning the masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery into digital at an incredibly high resolution. For example, we took dozens of shots of Botticelli's Venere and then stitched them together to create a gigapixel photo that you...