British lensman Levon Biss is using the Leaflet mapping library to introduce a serial of photos inward his latest project, Microsculpture. Microsculpture allows y'all to persuasion high resolution photos of insect specimens from Oxford University Museum of Natural History upwards unopen together with inward fine exceptional every mo Leaflet maps.
Using the Leaflet mapping library every mo a platform for browsing images isn't new. However it has rarely been done together with then beautifully. There are some gorgeous insects inward the Oxford University Museum of Natural History collection together with Levon Biss has captured them exquisitely.
Each insect's completed icon consists of approximately 8,000 private photographs (the large scale photographic prints are upwards to 3m high), captured using optical microscopes. The Leaflet mapping library actually allows the user to fully explore these high resolution photos yesteryear zooming inward unopen on the insects. The map scale inward the overstep right-hand corner of the map provides a useful conduct to the size of the insects every mo y'all zoom inward & out on the images.
You mightiness too move interested inward the Art of Mapping Art, which looks at a seat out of examples of the Leaflet mapping library beingness used to supply an interface for zooming-in on together with exploring industrial plant of art.
