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I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Post by Nitramp »

jessriedel wrote: post #34
raphaelj wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did: https://www.google.com/moon/ Last time I used it, Google Earth provided a 3D view of the Moon and of Mars.

It's too bad they haven't updated this to act like the modern version of Google Maps. It's like going back in time to the old HTML version.

Also, zero road data or local shops. It's like Apple Maps outside the Bay Area...

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Post by nakedrobot2 »

nbeleski wrote: post #37
k4r1 wrote: post #20

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

thanks for this! It is probably a smarter way to share the pic given the number o dead links...

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often.

edit: i a word

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Post by stronglikedan »

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #42
nbeleski wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks for this! It is probably a smarter way to share the pic given the number o dead links...

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often. edit: i a word

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Post by Theodores »

If anyone wants to look at this image properly then you need OpenSeadragon and VIPS.

OpenSeadragon enables you to view this image at full resolution without your device keeling over, VIPS enables you to make the image tiles required to get OpenSeadragon to work.

OpenSeadragon has only ever made it to the academic world, in this age of Instagram people want average resolution selfies that take three seconds to look at. OpenSeadragon enables a deeper look.

If anyone has ten minutes spare:

https://openseadragon.github.io/

On linux just apt-get install vips and then:

vips dzsave massive.jpg massive

And you are then good to go.

Now where was that torrent link...?

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Post by enriquto »

Theodores wrote: post #44

If anyone wants to look at this image properly then you need OpenSeadragon and VIPS. OpenSeadragon enables you to view this image at full resolution without your device keeling over, VIPS enables you to make the image tiles required to get OpenSeadragon to work. OpenSeadragon has only ever made it to the academic world, in this age of Instagram people want average resolution selfies that take three seconds to look at…

For images of a moderate size such as this one, viewing it on a regular image viewer is less of a hassle.

Re: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

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Post by throwawaymath »

stronglikedan wrote: post #43
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often. edit: i a word

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

Aside from the nontrivial security mechanisms that would be required to implement it safely, is there another reason why native browser support for torrenting doesn't exist yet?
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