I havent really had a look at it Bobby, and i could only find the demo for the Photosynth and not the Dragon software - and it doesnt work on my mum's machine (integrated graphics chip i assume). My concern was with the interface where all that data is shown on one screen, ok they say they just pixel/bandwidth ratio, but from the performance of things like google earth (which is basically the same) when used with the same speed of zooming and moving around i am fairly sure that presentation was on a high grade computer.  Also if it isnt just a net thing (which i assume the main thrust is home computing/pro file management) then a 300 Megapixel image as just one part of that "screen" - got to have a massive amount of data storage ability somewhere... and then the read speed/processor/RAM to bring up the increasingly detailed view of that image.  Could be wrong and they have come across some new way of programming it all, but from my very (and i have to stress that) limited knowledge of programming, i believe that the speed of doing things like that in this day and age (ie where people have got to the point of extremely efficient code) is only really affected by hardware capabilities.

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