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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 pyre »

citricsquid wrote: post #7
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?

"...anyone could have done x..." is such a silly idea. The point is they didn't , this guy did. Just like Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook, or that kid who made Chat Roulette. Anyone could have but they didn't.

Shouting about "111 Gigapixel new world record" makes it sound like it's a technological break-through. In reality it's the equivalent of "the world's largest candy bar" or "the world's largest taco."

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by kristofferR »

jjcm wrote: post #29

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…

They aren't stitched together, they're tiled. When you're loading Google Maps, you're loading dozens of relatively small resolution images.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by ddrmaxgt37 »

citricsquid wrote: post #27
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?

yup. definitely added later. that is pretty interesting...

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by InclinedPlane »

kristofferR wrote: post #32
jjcm wrote: post #29

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…

They aren't stitched together, they're tiled. When you're loading Google Maps, you're loading dozens of relatively small resolution images.

And? 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.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by wildmXranat »

citricsquid wrote: post #27
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?

I think so as well. The ads are too clear in comparison to surrounding area. One other ad I found stuck out a little bit more than the one I posted earlier.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by kristofferR »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #35
kristofferR wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren't stitched together, they're tiled. When you're loading Google Maps, you're loading dozens of relatively small resolution images.

And? 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.

There'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.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by ghshephard »

kristofferR wrote: post #37
InclinedPlane wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? 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.

There'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.

I'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.

Re: 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

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Post by jerf »

kristofferR wrote: post #37
InclinedPlane wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? 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.

There'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.

"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.

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