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British lensman Levon Biss is using the Leaflet mapping library to acquaint a serial of photos inwards his latest project, Microsculpture. Microsculpture allows yous to persuasion high resolution photos of insect specimens from Oxford University Museum of Natural History upwards unopen as well as inwards fine especial equally Leaflet maps.

Using the Leaflet mapping library equally a platform for browsing images isn't new. However it has rarely been done as well as thence beautifully. There are some gorgeous insects inwards the Oxford University Museum of Natural History collection as well as Levon Biss has captured them exquisitely.

Each insect's completed picture consists of some 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 inwards unopen on the insects. The map scale inwards the overstep right-hand corner of the map provides a useful ask to the size of the insects equally yous zoom inwards & out on the images.

You powerfulness too hold upwards interested inwards the Art of Mapping Art, which looks at a expose of examples of the Leaflet mapping library beingness used to furnish an interface for zooming-in on as well as exploring plant of art.