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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.'"
If I ran his site I'd either trim the star attraction down to a thumbnail-formerly-known-as-gigapixel shot or redirect all Slashdot referrals to goatse...
Wah!
That picture is amazing. I asked the photographer to email me a copy of the original but I haven't been able to access my mail server for hours. ;)
Max Lyons
;)
Did this guy switch over to his porn name or what?
And speaking of porn, how 'bout that gigapixel picture, eh?
Max Lyons has just posted on his site what it 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.
And thus became the first person to ever be slashdotted by only one visitor.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
Is to print each one of them on a separate sheet of paper, and tape them together?
The nation can rest, confident that we were the first to break the dreaded Gigapixel barrier. God speed, Max Lyon.
sigh
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Connect the dots - lalala
A gigapixel "Where's Waldo" would drive thousands insane.
Trolling is a art,
I use a billion monkeys, each looking at one particular bit of a scenery, then I tell them to line up and take turn at the keyboard, to type what they saw in emacs (the favorite monkey editor, it requires a lot of dexterity), and compile a very large XPM file.
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So what? this guy just figured out a way not to deal with a billion bananas and hundreds of tons of chimp shit. Big deal
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
To make a monitor large enough to use that picture as it's background.
I'll have the 1.000000001 Gigapixel picture ready later today.
I don't think even a Carl Zeiss lens can actually resolve a billion pixels, but it's worth a shot. Isn't it?
At least it would, if Seagate/Maxtor/WD/Samsung could get their way.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
after all that patient work, stitching and blending and doing everything manually for days, he realized he had left the lens cap on ?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
... and can't download such a huge picture. Could someone condense it down a bit and send me a copy?
Infuriate left and right
The guy said he needed a subject that was relatively static. But shadows on a canyon wall are not static. He says it took him 13 minutes. I wonder if there was any noticeable movement in the shadows in that time?
I wonder if thats where the term relatively comes in?
Stitching all of those pictures together.
The submitter obviously doesn't work at a University, where they'd drastically simplify the process. Instead of just using one camera to construct the image, they'd buy 196 digital cameras, make a cluster out of them, maintain a staff of undergraduate students to keep the cluster working, and then complain about their picture-scheduling software losing shots. But once they got the cluster in the right location to take the picture, it would only take them a few minutes to take and process the picture, a huge performance increase over the days required using one camera.
paintball
The Commies are pumping billions into Terrapixel research. There can not be a terrapixel gap!
/bin/fortune | slashdotsig.sh
Do not open this with MSPaint. Your PC will lock up for 3 days, then popup message will say "Install Linux to view image." You will know fear. You will know pain. And then you will crash. (mangled B5/JMS quote)
Ansel Adams just got friggin' OWNED!
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They got a 10' foot thermal for only $275,000. I'd snap it up.
Call me crazy, but it looks like 72dpi to me.
My guess would be The Public(tm).
I know what Americans out there are thinking: democracy is scary. Well don't worry, it is at first, but you'll get used to it with practice.
Now, if only I could auto-mod myself as Flamebait.
Complexity is Easy. Simplicity is Hard.
depends on the relative scale. Sooner or later photons would become larger than the individual receptor... but that's why they invented electron microscopes.
"Wow look at my brand new gigapixel camera!"
"How many picture can you get on your $600 4gb compact flash card?"
"Hmmm on the lowest setting?"
"Yeah"
"Two"
Well, many years of it should compress nicely:
Day 7781, 8am:
Sitting at desk, white cubical walls surround three sides, monitor in front with 1024x768 changing pixels. Fingers on keyboard move. Mouse moves every so often. Coffee level drops.
Day 7781, 1pm:
Sitting at desk, white cubical walls surround three sides, monitor in front with 1024x768 changing pixels. Fingers on keyboard move. Mouse moves every so often. Water level drops.
Oh yeah, if you want to add sound recording:
"God damn windows!"
"Bite me Bill Gates!"
"You want me to code WHAT?"
"Grrrr, why isn't cut-and-paste consistant in X?"
"*mumble* site must be slashdotted again"