Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The Largest Digital Photo

Just saw this on Slashdot.org:

Gigapixel writes to point us to what is claimed to be the largest digital photo on the Net, at 8.6 Gigapixel. It is a composite photo of the "Parete Gaudenziana," a fresco painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari, dated 1513. This fresco is in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in the convent of Varallo Sesia, diocese of Novara and Province of Vercelli, Italy. The site uses Flash to let you explore the fresco over a zoom range of more than 180 to 1. The photo is made up of 1145 images, each 12.2 Mpixel and 16 bits per color channel. Read on for more technical specs of the photo.


I've checked it out... it really is COOL! The music is very nice too... while you're looking at the fresco in excruciating detail, the sound of a church choir singing in the background really adds to the atmosphere. http://www.haltadefinizione.com/

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