Gigapan Ants

Click to Gigapan this Linepithema ant head

Click to Gigapan this Linepithema ant head

Gigapan is a technology that stitches together hundreds of individual images to form a massive single image.  It's hard to appreciate its power from just the small SEM image shown above, but if you click on the photo you'll be able to zoom to a marvelous level of detail.

More clickable gigapan ants below the fold.

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