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Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
- p1esk 8y agoWow, this is a lot of visual information! I wonder how it was done?
- zuppy 8y agohundreds or thousands of pictures stitched together. they use a motorised "tripod" to move the camera.
- King-Aaron 8y agoYep, I was wondering the same thing until I noticed that the traffic was a bit off... You'll notice the same cars appearing in multiple sections of the image https://i.imgur.com/Jz4JmZM.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Jz4JmZM.jpg
- yrro 8y agoCould the car have moved at the same time as the camera, such that it appeared in two different pictures which were later stitched together?
- hueving 8y agoYep, that's usually the giveaway of these types of panorama shots. Sometimes you can even find the same person in multiple places depending on how far apart the pics are taken.
- stevekemp 8y agoHere's a quick screenshot I made of that very problem: https://i.imgur.com/C6Vzoc8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C6Vzoc8.jpg
- Baeocystin 8y agoThere's a lot to explore. I love that circular crosswalk. It also makes me smile to see the potted houseplants on the blue-roofed barge. Can't quite read the QR codes on the Disney fence, though.
- verdverm 8y agoI spy Mickey mouse
- reimertz 8y agoOr the two action hero kids + two cool parents
- scoot 8y agohttps://screenshots.firefox.com/JFHWK8P7YT19BaEK/sh-meet.bigpixel.cn https://screenshots.firefox.com/JFHWK8P7YT19BaEK/sh-meet.big...
- verdverm 8y agohttps://photos.app.goo.gl/kc3vGpHfX8HRoenH8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/kc3vGpHfX8HRoenH8
- amatus 8y agoTop of the HSBC building.
- httpz 8y agoSomeone hide Waldo in there
- zuppy 8y agoI would actually love to find a game that uses one of these "gigapixel" images. Who can find this person? :) https://ibb.co/5Y72GGG https://ibb.co/5Y72GGG
- jttassassin 8y agohttps://ibb.co/6WrgD2h https://ibb.co/6WrgD2h https://ibb.co/0hmLbcK https://ibb.co/0hmLbcK https://ibb.co/0fKXfY0 https://ibb.co/0fKXfY0 https://ibb.co/WGSZj8S https://ibb.co/WGSZj8S I spent far too long finding that. Great game, haha
- zuppy 8y agohaha, nice find :)
- llllrrrr 8y agoHe is watching you. https://ibb.co/3cR9n2b https://ibb.co/3cR9n2b
- molmalo 8y agoSo is he: https://ibb.co/gJb0q5S https://ibb.co/gJb0q5S
- zmk_ 8y agoFirst thing I thought is now people are going to be looking for people having sex in the windows. I guess my expectations were too low.
- vim-guru 8y agoThis is quite creepy
- PavlovsCat 8y agoI agree. And if even that is not a permissible reaction to have, I'm sure my observation, that this is to photography what a million monkeys banging on a typewriter is to writing, won't fly either ^^
- Simulacra 8y agoHoly cow the pixels!!!! Sooo mannyyyy. Zoom in!
- yoavm 8y agoAm I the only one who gets a "FATAL ERROR: 404" message? I tried from different browsers on different devices. Wonder if they just block some countries?
- Baeocystin 8y agoJust checked, and it's down for me now (Bay area, California) whereas it was up earlier. Looks like Gigapan is down, too.
- vasili111 8y agoWorks fine. Latest Chrome. Europe.
- cbartlett 8y agoTry adding a ? at the end of the url, for some reason that makes it work for me
- schiho 8y agothat worked.
- felipelemos 8y agoProbably the CDN was dead. With ? in the end you invalidate the cache and goes directly to the backend server.
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- staticelf 8y agoI love how clearly you can see the smog. Really cool pic though.
- vasili111 8y agohttps://i.imgur.com/iaKNFrd.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iaKNFrd.jpg
- obahareth 8y agoI sadly get: This site can’t be reached. sh-meet.bigpixel.cn’s server IP address could not be found. I'm using CloudFlare DNS.
- hieloz 8y agoMaybe you have to check your networking setting. It works well here.
- sexy_devil 8y agoI had similar issue. If you had adblock on, turning it off helped me.
- verdverm 8y agoPerson without a head https://photos.app.goo.gl/RyP2dwJ13S2Lv6Zh9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/RyP2dwJ13S2Lv6Zh9
- jpatokal 8y agoThat's incredible. If you zoom in on the tippy top of huge building under construction across the river and then follow the crane cable down to the hook, you can see a construction worker in sufficient detail that you can tell what clothes he's wearing.
- ourmandave 8y agoIt's like one of those cop show computer lab scenes where the detectives find a vital clue from a witness' blurry 5 megapixel cell phone photo. "Wait a minute. Why didn't I see it earlier? Zoom and enhance on that smudge!"
- shabirgilkar 8y agoThis is my favorite photo now. I can relate my recent trip to Shanghai now. But these photos are very old I think because I'm missing tower inside the lawns of Disney store.
- stanislavb 8y agoThe streets seem quite empty btw
- t0mislav 8y agoI wonder which camera/lens they used?!
- bayindirh 8y agoIt's a high end, full frame, high resolution (36+ MP) SLR or mirrorless. Nikon d850, Sony A7R3, etc.
- puranjay 8y agoHow are pictures like these taken? What kind of equipment would you need?
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- jeffreymartin99 8y agoThey are shot with a dSLR and a very long lens. This one was likely shot with a 300mm lens. The camera is mounted on a programmable robot, and a mosaic of photos is created. They are then stitched together with software such as PTGui or kolor Autopano Giga. I've shot a number of images like this, in fact some of them over 4x bigger than this one. My largest one, of Prague, was released 2 weeks ago: http://360gigapixels.com/prague_gigapixel_panorama_900K_2018.. http://360gigapixels.com/prague_gigapixel_panorama_900K_2018.... you can see more about my gigapixel images here: http://www.jeffrey-martin.com/gigapixel-photography http://www.jeffrey-martin.com/gigapixel-photography
- marasal 8y agoPrague link fix: http://360gigapixels.com/prague_gigapixel_panorama_900K_2018/ http://360gigapixels.com/prague_gigapixel_panorama_900K_2018... How long it takes for robot to take all the pictures and how many pictures there is?
- jeffreymartin99 8y agoPrague was 3 hours per dataset. I was there for 3 days in the cold and rain, shooting multiple datasets, from 8am to 4pm last year in November.
- jimmychangas 8y agoWonderful pictures. The 360 views really help capture the feel of the city. Wish there was a way to fix the black hole at the bottom, though.
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- yohann305 8y agoThat water looks so inviting I want to jump in... not.
- penetrarthur 8y agoThere has to be someone naked. Let's find him/her.
- hugecannon 8y agoIt's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats. If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these are the same boat. I could be mistaken, but it seems in both cases that some 'manual effort' would have been involved to make the picture look natural by placing the duplicates slightly out of position as if they were two individual boats.
- isostatic 8y agoPeople too, unless this lady has an identical twin with the same umbrella https://imgur.com/NQ5keHY https://imgur.com/NQ5keHY I haven't seen any ugly merges between the frames yet, but they can't have been done manually
- hopler 8y agoWhy would that be manual and not an artifact of movement between snapshots? If it were manual effort,why wouldn't they erase a duplicate?
- hugecannon 8y agoLook at the barges I mentioned (https://imgur.com/a/ZNaLCuO https://imgur.com/a/ZNaLCuO). Clearly this specific case isn't an automatic stitching of photos. We must agree that there is only one barge and, though not copied, one instance of the boat has been moved out of line from the other. It would look ugly otherwise. > Why wouldn't they erase a duplicate? This I don't have a good reason for, which is why i thought this was curious
- typon 8y agoI see a black screen on Firefox on Windows 10
- madisfun 8y agoDisable adblocker.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoThe next generation of where’s Waldo is going to be incredible
- bramgn 8y agoFind this toilet paper https://imgur.com/a/GTnzYvo https://imgur.com/a/GTnzYvo
- asenk 8y agoBy looking at the river you can notice a moiré pattern with lines both horizontal and vertical to the camera, although the vertical lines are more apparent. I figure these would be either artifacts from the stitching process, or limitations of the lens itself. The effect also correlates in size and shape with out of focus areas, which can likewise be found in the river, signaling that it is indeed an artifact caused by the panorama. I guess you can take this as an exercise for the future when you can't quite figure out whether you are stuck in a virtual reality or not.
- bayindirh 8y agoWhen you clear the cache or visit the site for the first time and zoom in, you can see the tiles load. These lines are at the stiching borders, and coming from the stiching algorithm. Lens/sensor limit moire looks very different when compared to this.
- setquk 8y agoI think we hugged it to death based on the 404... :(
- mlrtime 8y agoPolice officers contemplating ice cream, the simple things in life https://imgur.com/a/0jF5JzN https://imgur.com/a/0jF5JzN
- danielvf 8y agoYou can see the amphibious warfare ship, Wuzhi Shan, being fitted out at the Hudong–Zhonghua shipyard.
- billfruit 8y agoPhenomenal. Can clearly read the text on the billboards on the tennis court. "Twosome apply together second enjoy discount".
- exabrial 8y agoFind the ghost: https://ibb.co/1bkxxG6 https://ibb.co/1bkxxG6
- brlcad 8y agoPrototype concept car spotted: https://imgur.com/a/LhAyUF9 https://imgur.com/a/LhAyUF9
- oliveshell 8y agoHaha, I don’t know what I was expecting but that made me chuckle. I wonder if anyone’s put together a collection of amusing “inadvertent Photoshops” from botched panorama stitching. Nothing I’ve seen yet tops this specimen of neural net weirdness: https://i.imgur.com/60fTgCg https://i.imgur.com/60fTgCg
- brlcad 8y agoThat is awesome. Maybe even frameworthy.
- hockeybias 8y agoSuperb! ;)
- L0stLink 8y agoThat is the most performant and responsive panorama I have ever seen!
- zhte415 8y agoLet's look into others' perceived privacy from a viewpoint several km away.
- packetslave 8y agoyou have no expectation of privacy in a public place, even when you're NOT in China.
- zhte415 8y agoBeing IN China (should be clear from comment history, don't understand that capitalisation of 'NOT'), I do indeed get the idea a public space is a public space, a Public Security place. And there's lots of observation, indeed, though mainly passive. Buying a high-rise apartment includes many incentives, not just the colour of the plaster of the wall and compound security, which many of these Shanghai high-rises over on Bund side have, but, for many friends and colleagues that purchase one, that is is indeed a private space that should not have someone's camera pointed at them. Anecdote is anecdote though. As is assumption.
- bayindirh 8y agoThese gigapixel images are an extreme kind of landscape photography. None of these people are directly targeted in this photography. Even street photography doesn't target people as-is. They become objects, they are stripped from their identity. They are part of the picture only.
- hpen 8y agoThis is really cool! But the ad is annoying
- zachguo 8y agoBetter version: http://www.bigpixel.cn/t/5834170785f26b37002af46d http://www.bigpixel.cn/t/5834170785f26b37002af46d And from the other side of the river: http://www.bigpixel.cn/t/57ecedae64b1bf2050ab00c1 http://www.bigpixel.cn/t/57ecedae64b1bf2050ab00c1
- slededit 8y agoI'm really surprised by how few people there are walking around on the street. You can see the people on the observation deck of World Financial Tower pretty clearly though.
- sangankal 8y agoBallari