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75 gigapixel panorama of Budapest is the world’s largest image

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Remember that 45 gigapixel panorama of the Dubai cityscape I showed you back in early May?  Well a new gigapixel photograph has arrived, dethroning the Dubai image as the world’s largest digital photograph.  A whopping 75 gigapixel image, 360 degree panorama of Budapest is the new champ.  The image was taken with  two 25-megapixel Sony A900 digital cameras fitted with 400mm Minolta lenses and 1.4X teleconverters.  And get a load of this: a printed version of the image measures at 15 meters long and the image file size is 200GB!  But enough blabber.  Head over to site the hosts the intertactive image.  Click the top button on the control bar at the left to enter full screen mode, scrub around the enormous image using your mouse, and feel free to see what the neighbors are doing by using the zoom slider on the left.  You see all those teeny tiny houses scattered in the image above?  Thanks to the highly detailed nature of this image you can zoom all the way into them.  Mind-boggling impressive, eh?

[Via Engadget; 70BPBudapest]

45 gigapixel panorama is world’s largest

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With a Canon 7D and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L zoom at 400mm, photographer Gerald Donovan captured the Dubai cityscape in the world’s largest panorama.  4,250 individual shots combined to make this highly detailed 45 gigapixel bohemoth of a photograph a reality.  Head over to Gigapan to explore the image in greater detail.  It’s incredible, actually.  You can zoom into individual buildings, streets, vehicles, and people.

[Via Gigapan; Gizmodo]

Navigating a 13.3 gigapixel image, Minority Report style

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Students at the University of Tromso in Norway have put together a ginormous interactive display wall.  The 22-megapixel display utilizes 28 projectors to spit out a resolution of 7,168 x 3,072.  It’s multitouch capabilities allow users to interact with the wall in a myriad of ways, Tom Cruise-style; gestures include hand swipes for panning and snapping fingers for zooming in.  And all of this can be down without actually touching the wall.  But how is that possible?  A number of floor-mounted cameras pick up your gestures in 1D and a 30 node computer setup manages to group together the various perspectives to determine 2D location.  In the demo video above, the wall outputs a 13.3 gigapixel highly detailed image of Trosmo.  Check it out and be blown away be its awesome power.

[Via University of Trosmo; Engadget]