"Dream Team" to Create Gigapixel Photo System

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 9, 2004 @08:11AM from the who-dreams-of-these-guys dept.

neutron_p writes "An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel of visual information in a single image. The first Big Picture Summit, Dec. 8 and 9, is organized by artist-photographer Clifford Ross. Ross says his goal is to bring closer to reality his desire to create a "you are there" photographic experience for those who have not personally witnessed the sublime beauty of natural scenes such as Mt. Sopris in Colorado."

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It's been done, albeit with some manual steps by seanscottrogers · 2004-12-09 08:15 · Score: 5, Interesting

Check out the grand canyon in gigapixel glory
Composition vs. Recording by podperson · 2004-12-09 08:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

One of the interesting possibilities for cameras with that much resolution is that photography can become a question of choosing a view of a larger recorded image rather than simply recording that cropped view.

This way you can crop your photos OUTWARDS and not just INWARDS after the fact.

This of course has all kinds of privacy implications too (why shouldn't the photograph be an all round view that includes the photographer?)