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Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier
megas writes "Max Lyons has just posted on his site what seems to be the first 1 Gigapixel picture, created from 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. According to Max, he has 'been unable to find any record of a higher resolution photographic (i.e. non-scientific) digital image that has been created without resizing a smaller, lower resolution image or using an interpolated image.'"
step 1: fake a 1 gigapixel picture step 2: ??? step 3: profit I bet this is a fake people, don't get taken
Well, golly. sbeast702 doesn't think it's a gigapixel image, and he's so clever that he (and only he) knows the subtle ways in which using photoshop magically transforms an image with one billion pixels into something else besides a gigapixel image. Oh, how I wish I could understand such esoteric things. Ah to be the sbeast702 . . .
But wait, what's that?! sbeast702, in his haste to get a FP, failed to read any of the article at all. For had he, he would have noted the author's lament that he could not use photoshop at all because his version limits the canvas to 30k pixels in any dimension, which is far too small for this image with 1 billion pixels which, somehow, is not a gigapixel image because sbeast702 says so.
STFU karma whore.
everything in moderation
Heck, what about the image of the Earth without any clouds taken over months at a time and stitched together? How big is that sucker?
The trick is the caveat of a non-scientific image. Pfft. Big freaking deal. All he did was make a mosaic of existing photo images. Why don't I hammer together all of my digital manga collection and call it the first 10 Gigapixel scanner image?
This is nothing. I work regularly with scientific datasets larger than this. I just recently had to fix a memory leak bug exposed by a customer who was trying to mosaic together 6 GB of satellite imagery together in the product I work with.
This is a total non-accomplishment, especially if the software he was using was already tested and working with >2 GB output. Call us back when a single sensor does this.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Wow, we've accomplished digital resolution comparable to 1940s film technology. Yawn.
At that resolution, we could probably see your penis!