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Friday, November 19, 2004

BIGGEST DIGITAL PIC EVER

This is the bomb . . . . a 2.5 Gigapixel image, its an extremely zoomed out shot of part of a city in Netherlands, allows you to zoom into single feet of buildlings. They took it using hundreds of high-res images, put it together over a duration of a few days using high-powered PCs. Here are the links, the bottom one is the actual image:

BBC NEWS SITE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4022149.stm

First Gigapixel image:
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm

Biggest Gigapixel Image
Company SITE:
http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite600.html

Actual SITE:
http://www.tpd.tno.nl/Pics/DII/gigazoom/Delft2.htm