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Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier

Posted by michael on from the sweetness dept.

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.'"

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  1. WooHoo! by AmoebafromSweden · · Score: 0, Troll

    so... Uhmm... I looked at the picture, and where is the naked chick?

  2. I just broke his record by Denver_80203 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I downloaded his picture and stitched it to 4 other copies... Now we have a 5 GP picture. Beat that!

  3. Re:My god... by Deaper · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know I bet this guy had to have thought to himself "Just imagine a beowulf cluster of 6 megapixel images all stitched together to form one really big image!"

  4. Couldn't you just... by bonch · · Score: 1, Troll

    Couldn't you just use some fractal program to generate infinite detail in a "gigapixel" fractal picture? You could easily beat this guy just by sacrificing a bit of rendering time.