Google is full of math folks. I would imagine that someone there could produce what you want in a few minutes. Something like "Powers of Ten". Perhaps Google might be interested in adding this to Google Earth (along with Google Moon, Google Mars, Google Titan, ...). You could add jpeg images ("Here's the picture I took of pi/2 on my last vacation there"), etc. I'm thinking about doing some crude animations (animated gif's?) with inversions to demonstrate how Euclid's algorithm works in the complex plane, but it won't be as pretty as what someone who has access to serious graphics technology could do. At 06:24 AM 8/29/2012, James Propp wrote:
Has anyone created interactive software that lets one zoom in on the real line?
(One possible design would be an inverse symbolic calculator connected to a Google Maps interface.)
Jim Propp