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"...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."
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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.
Who had the fun job of painting over every license plate?
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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."
It said "world record" not "technological breakthrough." The Guiness Book of World Records lists things like the world's largest candy bar or world's largest taco, not anything like significant technological breakthroughs.
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.
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.
I mean, just by spinning the camera around a little further, to make it a full 360 degree panorama, he'll break his own record.
I should write a script that makes the "world's longest string of QZQZQZQZQZ" and submit that. Or the world's largest picture of Mario. I'll just scale an SVG up to infinity. Granted, this guy's picture took a little more effort, but the exact same thing has been done, there was no new equipment created here, no refinement of technique, no new development. That is why I said anyone could do it. He did nothing new.
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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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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.
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
Much more crappy in my opinion, but certainly bigger, so this photo of Seville would not set a world record.