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Honestly I thought I was going to see some visualisation of a 1px high image vs. various other long things. E.g. " At a pixel density of 330ppi this image would

Honestly I thought I was going to see some visualisation of a 1px high image vs. various other long things. E.g. " At a pixel density of 330ppi this image would be longer than 1000 Starship Enterprises* ". Alas, no. > What a 600,000 megapixels wide picture looks like (oddly-even.com) 23 points by lukedeering 1 hour ago | flag | 12 comments Megapixel: I do not think it means what you think it means. > A megapixel (MP or Mpx) is one million pixels [1] 600,000 * 1,000,000 = 600,000,000,000 > The largest photo ever taken of Tokyo is ... 600,000 pixels wide [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel#Megapixel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel#Megapixel [2] http://www.oddly-even.com/2013/07/31/the-largest-photo-ever-taken-of-tokyo-is-zoomable-and-it-is-glorious/ http://www.oddly-even.com/2013/07/31/the-largest-photo-ever-... *I wouldn't mind knowing how many Starship Enterprises a 600,000 megapixel wide picture would be if viewed at a pixel density of 330ppi.

Retric 13y ago
At, 330 ppi you talking 28,000 miles but I don't think all the enterprises where the same length. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise Edit: The next gen enterprise was 642.5 Meters so a little over 70,000 of them. PS: The NASA enterprise was a test platform and not space worthy.
anonymouz 13y ago
We have 600 * 10^9 pixels, at 330ppi resolution this would correspond to 1.828 * 10^9 inches, or 4.618 * 10^7m, i.e., about 46200km. Now, there are different Starship Enterprises of somewhat varying lengths, but let's take NCC 1701-D, because that's the first one I found data on. Wikipedia puts its length at 642.5m [1]. Thus, it ould be about 71880 Starship enterprises for the given length (not accounting for any other dimensions of course). More interesting, it's a bit more than the circumference of Earth (~40000km). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%2...
- skrebbel 13y ago
  I'm really interested as to why you two consider a fictional space ship a good "underbelly feeling" measure of size. I like Star Trek, but I have absolutely no feeling for the size of the Enterprise. I'd believe it if you said it was 3km long, but also if you said that it was 400m long. Not meant as a harsh criticism though, I like the math and the geekiness :)
  - DougWebb 13y ago
    if it helps, the largest cruise ships are around 300m long.
  - TeMPOraL 13y ago
    I remembered it has around 700m, but didn't remember the exact figure. You could probably also ask either of us about the inner workings of transporter or the warp field dynamics ;). It's a geek thing. You spend too much time with something, it feels natural to you ;).
  - mkr-hn 13y ago
    This might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgyrIlhoyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgyrIlhoyw It's missing the rear end, but it's about half of the ship's total length.
  - incision 13y ago
    Different spatial intelligence? Personally, I'd say I have a better feeling for "starship enterprises" or "battroids" [0] in terms of length or height than the ubiquitous "football fields" or "empire state buildings". Both those fictional measures are things I've visualized being inside of or next to countless times. I can't say the same about the other two. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie#Battroid_mode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie#Battroid_mode

Retric 13y ago

At, 330 ppi you talking 28,000 miles but I don't think all the enterprises where the same length. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise Edit: The next gen enterprise was 642.5 Meters so a little over 70,000 of them. PS: The NASA enterprise was a test platform and not space worthy.

anonymouz 13y ago

We have 600 * 10^9 pixels, at 330ppi resolution this would correspond to 1.828 * 10^9 inches, or 4.618 * 10^7m, i.e., about 46200km. Now, there are different Starship Enterprises of somewhat varying lengths, but let's take NCC 1701-D, because that's the first one I found data on. Wikipedia puts its length at 642.5m [1]. Thus, it ould be about 71880 Starship enterprises for the given length (not accounting for any other dimensions of course). More interesting, it's a bit more than the circumference of Earth (~40000km). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%2...

skrebbel 13y ago
I'm really interested as to why you two consider a fictional space ship a good "underbelly feeling" measure of size. I like Star Trek, but I have absolutely no feeling for the size of the Enterprise. I'd believe it if you said it was 3km long, but also if you said that it was 400m long. Not meant as a harsh criticism though, I like the math and the geekiness :)
- DougWebb 13y ago
  if it helps, the largest cruise ships are around 300m long.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  I remembered it has around 700m, but didn't remember the exact figure. You could probably also ask either of us about the inner workings of transporter or the warp field dynamics ;). It's a geek thing. You spend too much time with something, it feels natural to you ;).
- mkr-hn 13y ago
  This might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgyrIlhoyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgyrIlhoyw It's missing the rear end, but it's about half of the ship's total length.
- incision 13y ago
  Different spatial intelligence? Personally, I'd say I have a better feeling for "starship enterprises" or "battroids" [0] in terms of length or height than the ubiquitous "football fields" or "empire state buildings". Both those fictional measures are things I've visualized being inside of or next to countless times. I can't say the same about the other two. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie#Battroid_mode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-1_Valkyrie#Battroid_mode