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111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by christoph »

PostOnce wrote: post #4

Isn't this sort of pointless? If it were from a single sensor, or a single shot of a camera with multiple sensors, it might be something, but anyone can take a limitless number of zoomed-in images and stitch them together. How about someone stitches together all the Google street view images of I-95 into a big panorama? New world record?

Really? Did you read what they went through to create this on the above link from Google translate? Seems like some serious effort went into this (12 attempts over 6 months), built their own robot controller and processed/checked thousands upon thousands of images

I think the end result is incredibly impressive and the technical issues they solved even more so.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by cvander »

ra wrote: post #3

If there ever was a city on Earth who's beauty is worth 111 gigapixels, then surely it is Seville. If you ever get the opportunity, GO THERE.

A great city, a good place to take pictures, and 9750 images to share to the world. The about section has a lot of great info about this project. I hope they do some travel and bring us other locations like this.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by dgritsko »

ra wrote: post #3

If there ever was a city on Earth who's beauty is worth 111 gigapixels, then surely it is Seville. If you ever get the opportunity, GO THERE.

I saw the white bridge on the far left of the picture and had to look it up, as it seemed very similar to a bridge I'd seen in Buenos Aires:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_del_Alamillo

Sure enough, it was the same architect (Santiago Calatrava):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_la_Mujer

BA's another amazing city; I would love to see it get the same 111-gigapixel treatment.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by citricsquid »

wildmXranat wrote: post #18

FYI, some of the photographed sidewalk ads are clickable and take you to the merchants website. Location of one of them: Pan left until you see a rombus shaped roof with square patches of soil and grass on it. Zoom in closer and take look on the right for a standing sidewalk ad.

It seems the adverts have been superimposed? I wonder if they're the original adverts or they sold these "fake" adverts to cover the creation costs?

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by rorrr »

ANH wrote: post #22

Amazing. On maximum zoom, nearby blades of grass can be distinguished, but the atmospheric distortion of distant objects makes them look like part of an impressionist painting.

It's actually very blurry when you zoom all the way in. You can halve the resolution and not lose any information. So it's really a 111/4 = 27.8 gigapixel panorama.

Compare it with this:

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html

Which is much sharper when you zoom all the way in.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by jjcm »

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_coordi...). With a total land area of 148,940,000 km^2 (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...) (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?
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