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.'"

Comments

Not an image

[sbeast702]

I don't consider this to be gigapixel image, more of a high tech photoshop job than anything else.

I'll wait until there is a camera released that can take and store a 1 gig image before I get too hyped up.

Re:Not an image

[randyest]

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.

Re:Not an image

[sbeast702]

I read the page... what I meant by a "photoshop image" was a image that was, just like the page said, digitally altered, not a true picture taken by a camera. The point I was trying to make in my post, was not arguing with the fact that the end result was indeed 1 gigapixel in size, but was just stating that, you can use all the digital tape you want, but it should not be considered a true picture.

And I could really give a fuck what points you want to give or take away from my posts, i'm just here posting my opinions.

Give the keyboard back to daddy.

Someone had to say it

[evilmuffins]

Think of the applications for pr0n!

Kazaa? .torrent?

[TheMatt]

Quoth: Final image file size: 2,068,654,055 bytes

So, how long until it's on Kazaa? Or BitTorrent?

And, man, wait 'til the pr0n industry gets ahold of this.

Prove it!!

[paughsw]

step 1: fake a 1 gigapixel picture step 2: ??? step 3: profit I bet this is a fake people, don't get taken

Winning through semantics

[Valdrax]

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.

1940s film technology

[squashed]

Wow, we've accomplished digital resolution comparable to 1940s film technology. Yawn.

Re:that's nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

Shut up, fucker. Quit lying about your nonexploits.

Re:Why

[pediddle]

At that resolution, we could probably see your penis!