64pit picture. WDCC

[MacMike]

I am on a mission to find a copy of the Library of Congress photo that Steve Jobs demo'd at the WDCC. Im in a debate with a friend of mine on how such a high resolution picture could be created. I say that the picture was creaded from many smaller pictures then pieced together to make the entire photo. This would be done by a high end camera made for such a task. My friend thinks it would be created by a large scanner in order to achieve such a large image from one shot/scan.

Also what would be a ballpark rated resolution for such a photo. Its got to be astronomical.

Anyway, I figured someone can enlighten us. If anyone knows how to get ahold of this "enormously large" image or something of the like I would love to know where or how.

MacMike

 

[shmendall]

I want this pic too!

 

[fleurya]

Here you go! Not the picture (that's like 4GB!), but the site of the guy who created it, and others.

It was many pictures stitched together. I've seen a couple before like it of a mountain range and a cityscape. This guy is a master of the craft.

I would have been more impressed if I hadn't seen a demo by Microsoft a couple days before. They acquired some new technology that let's you quickly zoom in and out of large images like that with minimal processing. I can't remember exactly what it was called or its more practical uses, but it was impressive. Basically, the guy had all the pages from a book laid out side by side and he could almost instantly go from zoomed way out to see all pages right down to a single word on one page.

Of course, what they were showing and what Steve was showing were really 2 different things.

 

[MacMike]

nice

Thanks fleurya. There is some good information here. These photos are amazing. Ive read that some of these gigapixel images cost over $20,000 just to produce. And a whole lot of work. It is definatly worth it though.

I know the filesize is very large on the gigapixel pictures, but I really want to find a way to download one. I'd like to play around with it

 

[shmendall]

That guy must be talented!