Gigapixel image
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A gigapixel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (109) pixels (picture elements), 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera. Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images usually involves either making mosaics of a large number of high-resolution digital photographs or using a film negative as large as 12" × 9" (30 cm × 23 cm) up to 18" × 9" (46 cm × 23 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end large-format film scanner with at least 3000 dpi resolution. As of 2012, only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera.[1][2]
Gigapixel images may be of particular interest to the following:
- Artists
- Curators and art historians, to better study artworks
- Health care providers, such as pathologists, for virtual microscopy utilizing whole slide images (digitally scanned glass microscope slides, also called virtual slides)
- Physicists viewing the results of supercomputer simulations
- Viewers of satellite composite images for various purposes, including agricultural policy, land use planning, and military intelligence
- Visual effects industry, where gigapixel images can enable the creation of immersive digital environments
[edit] See also
- Gigapixel Tour - Gigapixels From France
- GigaLinc - Immersive interaction with Gigapixel images
- Largest photographs in the world
- Powerwall - Computer technology for interactive gigapixel displays
- HD View - Microsoft's high resolution image viewer plug-in (Windows only - IE & Firefox)
- eduToolbox iScalr - pure HTML5 gigapixel-image-viewer (webkit & FF4+)
- Gigapan - A Google/NASA/CMU spinout technology that includes a commercially available robotic imager, free stitcher, and web-based viewer
- Gigapxl Project
- dgCam - Microsoft Research Asia's gigapixel camera
[edit] References
- ^ http://www2.ifa.hawaii.edu/newsletters/article.cfm?a=340&n=29
- ^ http://www.gigapxl.org/project.htm
[edit] External links
- Sevilla - 111 Gigapixels
- London - 80 Gigapixels
- Budapest - 70 Gigapixels
- Cannes- 65 Gigapixels - Gigapixel Tour (Guillaume Roumestan)
- Rio de Janeiro
- Nice- 52 Gigapixels - Gigapixel Tour (Guillaume Roumestan)
- Vienna - 50 Gigapixel
- Marburg - 47 Gigapixels
- Dubai - 45 Gigapixels
- Saint-Raphaël- 41 Gigapixels - Gigapixel Tour (Guillaume Roumestan)
- Prague, indoor - 40 Gigapixels - Library in Strahov Monastery
- Paris - 26 Gigapixels
- Dresden - 26 Gigapixels
- Roquebrune Sur Argens - 22Gigapixels - Gigapixel Tour (Guillaume Roumestan)
- Gpix - Dozens of Gigapixel images from Austria - up to 21 Gigapixels
- Carriere des grands Caous- 20 Gigapixels - Gigapixel Tour (Guillaume Roumestan)
- Prague - 18 Gigapixels
- Yosemite National Park (U.S.A - Californie) - 17 Gigapixels
- Megeve - 16 Gigapixels - Gigapixel Tour (Guillaume Roumestan)
- London, indoor - 15.5 Gigapixels - Cathedral Saint Paul
- Vancouver - 12 Gigapixels
- Vancouver Downtown - 10 Gigapixels
- Miraflores, Peru - 5 Gigapixels
- Sofia,Bulgaria - 3 Gigapixels
- The desert oasis of Huacachina, Peru - 2 Gigapixels
- President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, Washington - 1.5 Gigapixels
- Machu Picchu - 1.5 Gigapixels
- Feldkirch360.at - Big 1,2 Gigapixel Project
- Mexico - 0.5 Gigapixels - El Evento 40 Bicentenario - Big crowd
- San Francisco (2008) - 0.5 Gigapixels
- San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906 - 0.5 Gigapixels
- GigaPixel360 - Everything Gigapixel
- Gigapixel Panorama Photography
- The Gigapxl Project - A custom-built Gigapixel camera, by Graham Flint[1][2]
- Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies - about Clifford Ross, in the New York Times December 9, 2004.[3]
- Querdenker Gigapixel - Gigapixel images with a wide motive range, also multiviewpoint Gigapixel[4]
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