Worlds Largest Photo

Villain

The Dutch have produced a 2.5 gigapixel Photo, it's pretty cool:

Photo: http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite966.html

Article:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/17/worlds_biggest_snap/

Sorry if this has been posted before but I done a search and came back empty.

Spalk0

Not sure the point of making such a large photo but gigapixels a funny word! hehe

Jim

Pretty brutal photo.

zoro

:eek: you can zoom into the license plates of cars! and into the skyline!

*faint*

Spalk0

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

Pretty brutal photo.

Yeah you'd think if they were gonna do a photo that big it would be of some hot chick or something! :rolleyes:

Villain

Trigger! wrote:

Yeah you'd think if they were gonna do a photo that big it would be of some hot chick or something! :rolleyes:

Problem is up that close she probably wouldn't be so hot!

Jim

According to the clock on the church it was taken at 3:05.
Its unbelievably big.

ShiverinEskimo

it was taken at 5 past three according to the clock on the spire in the extreme background. Very impressive. Expecially the way the website allows you to zoom in so much. Brilliant.

Spalk0

irish1 wrote:

Problem is up that close she probably wouldn't be so hot!

If she is a truly hot chick, course she'll look good!

Pompey Magnus

It's the world's most difficult "Where's Wally?" puzzle!

SantaHoe

The request cannot be processed at this time. The amount of traffic exceeds the Web site's configured capacity.

Site getting hammered methinks.

Villain

Yea tried it a moment ago and got the same, must be all the boards members jamming the site.

gobby

Site is still pretty backlogged... Damn! Its not like I'll be able to use my home connection!

Villain

Its back up again, heres a link directly to the photo: http://www.tpd.tno.nl/Pics/DII/gigazoom/Delft2.htm

Kali

spot the BMW dealership

gobby

Okay, finally got through! That it absolutly class! The section where u can see the preparation is cool too. All round class experiment!

steveland?

zoro wrote:

:eek: you can zoom into the license plates of cars! and into the skyline!

*faint*

The future is here....

SoupyNorman

Finally a camera angle wide enough to accomodate Rick Waller

smoke.me.a.kipper

thats unbelievable.

opr

"Enemy of the state" anyone ? Really is amazing !

Blisterman

They should have taken it in Manhatten or somewhere.

steveland?

You can even see stuff like a guy loading up his fork lift.

Adam

Depeche_Mode wrote:

It's the world's most difficult "Where's Wally?" puzzle!

ok, who can find the sign saying "Te Huur"?

NotMe

Who can find the walking torso?

Lenny

That is just amazing.

steveland?

Err... can someone explain this

hacktavist

http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite1051.html
It tells you about it on the site : here

seamus

There are two hot girls in that photo, but I'm not gonna tell you where.

Savage

ando

feck, thats impressive:

RobertFoster

SteveD wrote:

Err... can someone explain this

it was taken in sections - not all at once with one big camera! - hundreds of little photos concatenated seamlessly (bar missing feet ) - read what the reg said (linked in the first post):

TheRegister wrote:

The 2.5 gigapixel image is - of course - a montage of images rather than a single snap and seamlessly fusing the separate images was the main technical challenge.

There's more spooky images (like half a person!) if you zoom into the red path and follow it up.

unkel

Stunningly amazing...

Blisterman wrote:

They should have taken it in Manhatten or somewhere.

They should have taken it about 10 miles down the road at Scheveningen strand on the hottest day of the year. A MILLION people to look at

Capt'n Midnight

Below are some facts and figures about the gigapixel image:

* Final image dimensions: 78,797 x 31,565 pixels
* Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
* Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
* Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
* Number of source images: 600
* Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
* Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes

It wasn't an instant snap so some mismatches
hopefully next time they'll try a 360 degree one ~ 30GB

Astro1996

seamus wrote:

There are two hot girls in that photo, but I'm not gonna tell you where.

Victor

Blisterman wrote:

They should have taken it in Manhatten or somewhere.

www.zoomify.com has Paris.

Pugsley

SteveD wrote:

Err... can someone explain this

Yea I spotted the no feet fellow aswell, and thought it was rather wierd, must be because they just took a shat load of pictures and stuck em together, he obviouslly moved, if you look at the very bottom (closest part) of the main road on the right you can see a cyclist too who's head has been cut off and some guy wearing a red top has half of his head and shoulders in place of it, kinda funny in a wierd way.

But theres some real cool graffitti on the left hand side of the photo, on the side of that just top of the center on the side of a pillar thing, looks cool as hell

rob1891

If you printed that it would be 6 meters across and 2 an a half meters high. A 360 degrees one would print almost 26 meters across!

Now, not saying Dublin is a suitably majestic subject for such a photo, but if someone would like to spend the thousands of euro to set up, get printed and find a space to exhibit the thing, that is something I'd love to see!!

Third_Echelon

Im sure this is similar to the type of technology used in spy satellites etc... so the stories of 'big brother' being able to take a picture of you sitting on the bog are true!!!! :eek:

feylya

If you sat on an outdoor toilet...

ubu

heh, check this out
bit of an accident involving a car and a bus on the main street!

Third_Echelon

no no no... they've got x-ray gear as well!!! nowhere is safe feylya

Stephen

Anyone spot the Ikea dealer and the windmill?

joseph brand

There is a weird sort of car-bus to right of main building, center horizontal along that large main road/boulevard, what the smeg is it!!!

Broken photo. :eek:

Raphael

Sweet Zombie Jesus on a pogo-stick that's cool