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What record did this break? Largest photo? Call me picky, but I don't see how this can be deemed a record. If stitched together photos count, then what about go
by jjcm 16y ago
What record did this break? Largest photo? Call me picky, but I don't see how this can be deemed a record. If stitched together photos count, then what about google maps? The average resolution of landmass is 15m for all of google earth (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Imagery_and_coordination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Imagery_and_coordi...). With a total land area of 148,940,000 km^2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth) that puts the resolution of google earth's stitched together images at around 662 gigapixels (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(148,940,000+km2+in+m^2)+/+(15^2+m^2) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(148,940,000+km2+in+m^2...) (that seems lower than I expected, anyone want to check my math?). Wouldn't any stitched image have to beat that at least to be deemed a record?
- kristofferR 16y agoThey aren't stitched together, they're tiled. When you're loading Google Maps, you're loading dozens of relatively small resolution images.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoAnd? I don't need to hook up fiddler to know that when I hit sevilla111.com I'm not pulling down a 0.1 terapixel image all in one go, I'm only ever loading a teeny tiny (tiled) sub-section of the raw image or a lower res version of the whole. Which isn't much different than google maps/Earth.
- kristofferR 16y agoThere's a difference. For this 111GP image there was taken 9750 images. Those images were then merged together to a single image using Autopano Giga and then split for the ease of presentation. Google's satelite photography on the other hand has never been merged into one huge image.
- ghshephard 16y agoI'm with the OP. These images have not been merged together to form a single image. There is no 111 Gigapixel image out there that represents this picture. As you zoom in, you hit a different tile-layer.
- singlow 16y agoMaybe the fact that this "single photo" is taken from a single vantage point makes it a record?
- kristofferR 16y agoWell, turns out I wasn't entirely correct for this picture. They rendered it to three bigass images: http://translate.google.es/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sevilla111.com%2Fcomosehizo.htm&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8 http://translate.google.es/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sevi... For some of the other massive Gigapixel photographs I've seen they've rendered it down to only one image file: http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/index_en.html#3 http://70gigapixel.cloudapp.net/index_en.html#3
- jerf 16y ago"Google's satelite photography on the other hand has never been merged into one huge image." [citation needed] How do you know that? What are the odds someone in their organization has done that for kicks at some point? Or anybody else with a similar dataset.
- kristofferR 16y agoTrue, but records aren't considered records if they're kept secret. Even if I could hold my breath for 25 minutes, Stig Severinsen would be considered as the best in the world at holding his breath until I publicly demonstrated that I could beat his time.