2.5 Gigapixel Photograph

[seeking]

this is such an awesome thing, i discovered it off of i-am-bored.com

the picture could be better but nonetheless heres the link

http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/Delft2.htm

[loganXman]

very fun to play with, if only i could do that with real satellite imagery

[pallidin]

Nice! Works great too. I panned to the right and zooming in could read the license plate of a car.

On their home page I clicked on the project and its technical details link.

600 images(side-by-side, up-down) were snapped with a camera and composited with a great deal of effort.

Amazing.

Here's their home page: http://www.tpd.tno.nl/

Look to the right and click on the Gigapix project.

Edited January 8, 2005 by pallidin

[whoa182]

thats amazing they need this camera on mars

Edited January 8, 2005 by whoa182

[Richdog]

Yeah I saw this a couple of months ago, it's very very cool.

[TooFarGone]

Thats crazy cool.Lol..chrst you can zoom in far.

[whoa182]

I wonder how much costs :S

[Dead_Man_Inc]

It isn't one big picture from a digital camera. If you look closely you can see that it is a whole bunch of pictures stitched together. You can see cars that are only half cars, people without legs and so on. I saw this on another site and they said that this was a project from some university in the netherlands region.

Edited January 11, 2005 by Dead_Man_Inc

[BabyBash82]

Yes, but im sure it took a lot of time to put it together.. and none the less, it still zooms extremely far.

[Graylady]

This is really cool..

I can see a naked woman changing her clothes....

[Latic]

It is actually one big picture.

The reason that it has missing legs or cars driving into or merged is because it took several hours to take.

[Scorpius]

That is CRAZY! Now imagine a computer and many cameras programmed to take photos and stitch them as quick as possible for military or geographical purposes.

Wait don't we have satelite imaging for that?

[Dead_Man_Inc]

Yes, but im sure it took a lot of time to put it together.. and none the less, it still zooms extremely far.

445921[/snapback]

Actually you are completely wrong. It IS a whole bunch of photos and I can prove it. Here is a quote from the site (link is provided at the end of this post.

    * Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels

    * Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)

    * Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap

    * Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes

    * Number of source images: 600

    * Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)

    * Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)

    * Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125

    * Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees

    * Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes

    * Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours

    * Time required to optimise project: 4 hours

    * Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs

    * Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days

There you go. Right from the mouths of the people who made it. It isn't from some powerful camera, it is put together from different pictures

Source

Edited January 14, 2005 by Dead_Man_Inc

[kikuchiyo]

This picture is huge, it's fantastic, you can zoom in people with great detail. I should try the technique on a montreal land scape, of course 2.5 billion pixels is more then I could chew.

biggest digital picture

Try to find the two women with the map. Have fun!

[Silent-Storm]

Hey thats brilliant that is..

[BurnSide]

Hoily wow, that's amazing!

You can zoom in and see the time on the clock in the far background!

Good find thank you, this is alot of fun!

[Athenian]

Makes you kind of feel like God... Or a sniper...

[seeking]

is this the same one i posted or a new one? i cant seem to load the url at work

[Dancing_Dumplings]

oh man this could keep me entertained for so many hours!

[Jesus_Freak]

cool, but if i click the + button more than twice, it gets all blurry and indistinguishable.

[et's daddy]

im amazed

you can read the plates on the cars

vvn

[Jesus_Freak]

why can't i do that?!?!? now i'm sad....

[Shivel]

Grrr..found a random guy and a guy on a motorcycle..cant find those damned 2 woman though

But very cool find..its a good way to kill time ( and yes i do feel like Sniper! )

[Doctor_Strangelove]

I'll come back to it when i'm extremly bored

[saRa]

I showed it to one of my friends. This is what he said:

"It's multiple pictures put together. You can see spots where something moved and it didn't blend right."