[H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
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I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
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This is also a bus-car on the main road. The picture is a composite, took them a while to 'click' it all. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
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thare a lot of those... I found another one where the top half of the guy is missing on the right side of the picutre (bike lane) roughly 2/3's of the way up. at the top 1/4 of that bike lane cross the street is some guy w/ his feet missing... On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thare a lot of those... I found another one where the top half of the guy is missing on the right side of the picutre (bike lane) roughly 2/3's of the way up. at the top 1/4 of that bike lane cross the street is some guy w/ his feet missing... The 2.5 gigapixel image is a composition of images rather than a single image. TNO developed a sophisticated approach to merge the many images - all 600 of them. The photos were taken automatically using a modern consumer camera and a powerful 400 mm lens. The camera was positioned automatically using a computer-controlled pan-tilt unit. Each of the 600 photos overlaps, an arrangement that ensured very accurate positioning and enabled us to stitch the images automatically into one giant image of 78,797 by 31,565 pixels. The most difficult tasks were processing these large images and comparing the overlapping images. Looks like where images meet, moving objects would have moved on before the next shot.
