What makes this a lot of fun is that they have published the picture on the web as a flash applet that lets you move the camera and zoom-zoom-zoom. It is quite amazing how much detail a 2.5 billion pixels photo can carry.The largest digital panoramic photo in the world has been created by researchers in the Netherlands.
The finished image is 2.5 billion pixels in size - making it about 500 times the resolution of images produced by good consumer digital cameras.
The story behind the picture
The picture
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 9 of 9
-
November 20th, 2004 10:44 AM #1Bullfrog
- Join Date
- May 20th, 2003
- Location
- Denmark
- Posts
- 564
World's biggest digital panorama photo
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that is creativity."
-Charles Mingus
-
November 20th, 2004 01:36 PM #2Bullfrog
- Join Date
- May 27th, 2003
- Location
- Norway
- Posts
- 993
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
-
November 20th, 2004 01:42 PM #3Guest
- Join Date
- February 11th, 2004
- Location
- Derby, UK (yeay uni!)
- Posts
- 776
woah...the detail is indeed amazing...I'm stunned!
-
November 20th, 2004 02:24 PM #4Tree Frog
- Join Date
- May 22nd, 2003
- Location
- Iowa City, Iowa
- Posts
- 100
That's like taking Where's Waldo to the next level. You could spend an hour looking for small things in that photo, like the torso-less guy mentioned in the article. Find him?
-
November 20th, 2004 03:00 PM #5Bullfrog
- Join Date
- May 20th, 2003
- Location
- Denmark
- Posts
- 564
Nope, I have not found the guy yet, but I have found some pretty funny looking cars.
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that is creativity."
-Charles Mingus
-
November 20th, 2004 06:49 PM #6Tree Frog
- Join Date
- May 28th, 2003
- Location
- England
- Posts
- 172
This reminds me of my free trial on the NASA satellite thing where you could view all the major world cities. I tell you, roaming through London and Tokyo, then stopping in New York is pretty interesting.
-
November 20th, 2004 09:26 PM #7Tree Frog
- Join Date
- June 8th, 2003
- Location
- Fort Campbell, KY
- Posts
- 345
I actually found him! He's by a blue sign, right? Wearing a backpack and looking away. And a few spots below him in that parking lot is a wonderful parking job! If you find it, you'd know what I mean.
That's pretty awesome to look at.
-
November 21st, 2004 12:29 AM #8Tree Frog
- Join Date
- August 4th, 2004
- Location
- New York
- Posts
- 331
I didn't find the torsoless guy but I did find his torso.. and this incredible parking job mentioned earlier. Or perhaps this was a different one. However, now.. I want to park like that sometime.
-
November 21st, 2004 09:41 AM #9Guest
- Join Date
- February 11th, 2004
- Location
- Derby, UK (yeay uni!)
- Posts
- 776
reminds me of my parking...*looks dreamy*
Reply With Quote
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts