World's first gigapixel image - DPChallenge Forums

12/02/2003 08:26:44 PM · #9

I've tried several times, only once I got a response from the server. It seems to be up, but veeeeeery busy. Prolly all us DPCers bangin' on it!

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

12/02/2003 08:42:26 PM · #10

And if you htink a gigapixel is big...//navigatela.lacity.org/samples/start/

There's an 82 gigapixel image of Southern California; it does need a plugin to view it though...

zeuszen

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II

12/02/2003 09:30:21 PM · #11

Opens fine for me, every time.

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED

12/02/2003 10:13:07 PM · #12

Hah, opening fine for me now too! Before it wouldn't even respond to a ping, now I'm getting a consistent 45ms

Message edited by author 2003-12-02 22:14:13.

Morgan

Nikon D800

12/02/2003 10:43:24 PM · #13

Gordon, Thanks for sharing this link. I am amazed at these images. Great fun for a project, but a lot of hard work. The results are truly impressive. Max offers a wonderful tutorial, so he shares his knowledge and skills too. Which is terrific. Cheers, Michael

pitsaman

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

12/02/2003 10:59:53 PM · #14

Originally posted by Gordon:

//www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm

I don't believe it is true about the stitching all those 3-4 MB images together!
What kind of program + processor + RAM + Video card will handle that kind of job!?
You take any powerful machine available today and open 10 images of 5-6 MP camera size and try to stitch them machine will freeze!

Refracted

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM

12/02/2003 11:09:57 PM · #15

he wrote his own programs..

jmsetzler

Sony Alpha a6000

Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 E-mount

12/02/2003 11:11:42 PM · #16

I dont think I understand the purpose of these images... someone elighten me...

pitsaman

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

12/02/2003 11:12:32 PM · #17

Originally posted by Refracted:

he wrote his own programs..

But still,it's like carrying an elephant on a coffee spoon!

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

12/02/2003 11:27:38 PM · #18

Originally posted by pitsaman:

Originally posted by Gordon:
//www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm

I don't believe it is true about the stitching all those 3-4 MB images together!
What kind of program + processor + RAM + Video card will handle that kind of job!?
You take any powerful machine available today and open 10 images of 5-6 MP camera size and try to stitch them machine will freeze!

Not true, I have stitched seven 6.3Mpx images from my 10D on an 833MHz laptop with 256MB of ram, a 20 gig hard drive and cheap MOBO-integrated video. Hardly a speed demon. Takes damn near forever (>1 hour) but it does run.
PanoTools, the underlying software doing the real work for him, is VERY powerful; he wrote what seems to be a nice user interface. I use a different user interface on the same PanoTools "guts" (PTGUI, another shareware interface).
I may try his interface, it seems to have some great functionality.
I am planning on doing some larger, multi-row stitches, whenever I get a "round tuit". I'll prolly use the Canon 100mm macro for ultimate sharpness. Of course I need a subject that is worthy, a problem in itself. It may wait until my next trip to the Southwest.

justine

Canon EOS-50D

12/02/2003 11:29:48 PM · #19

Just amazing. A real accomplishment. Thanks for posting the link.

rll07

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

12/02/2003 11:57:33 PM · #20

Originally posted by kirbic:

And if you htink a gigapixel is big...//navigatela.lacity.org/samples/start/

There's an 82 gigapixel image of Southern California; it does need a plugin to view it though...

that is pretty amazing, on this shot you can zoom in to see the baseball field and zoom out to see how far away the image was taken
hold mouse button down after clicking on zoom and move mouse down or up
DSL/Cable only
interesting

KevinRiggs

Canon EOS-1Ds

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

12/03/2003 01:03:21 AM · #21

Originally posted by kirbic:

And if you htink a gigapixel is big...//navigatela.lacity.org/samples/start/

There's an 82 gigapixel image of Southern California; it does need a plugin to view it though...

That is large but the author of the 1.09 gp image stated that he doesn't know of any photographic (ie. nonscientific) photos that are over 1 gigapixel. The photos at this link are made for the US Geological Service presumably by NASA or the Air Force or whomever "owns" or "leases" time on those optical satellites that the US govt uses to watch all of us walkin' around. The argument could be made that the TerraServer that MS has been runnin' for years could be the largest image available to public consumption (although most of it was created with Soviet era equipment from the Russian bloc states). I think that a gigapixel image for someone who doesn't seem to have access to govt funding or govt resources is pretty . . . crazy, ingenious, inventive, boring, scary and (perhaps most importantly) it just doesn't seem to be on the challenge topic. Thus, a 2 for effort.

:)

Kev

Natator

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

12/03/2003 04:52:45 AM · #22

This (amazing) image reminds me of a montage I saw once in Paris of the Alps. Taken with 100's of standard 6x4 photos all stuck to a HUGE wall in a museum.

The whole image must have been 30 feet by about 20.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

12/03/2003 09:11:33 AM · #23

Originally posted by KevinRiggs:

Originally posted by kirbic:
And if you htink a gigapixel is big...//navigatela.lacity.org/samples/start/

There's an 82 gigapixel image of Southern California; it does need a plugin to view it though...

That is large but the author of the 1.09 gp image stated that he doesn't know of any photographic (ie. nonscientific) photos that are over 1 gigapixel. The photos at this link are made for the US Geological Service presumably by NASA or the Air Force or whomever "owns" or "leases" time on those optical satellites that the US govt uses to watch all of us walkin' around. The argument could be made that the TerraServer that MS has been runnin' for years could be the largest image available to public consumption (although most of it was created with Soviet era equipment from the Russian bloc states). I think that a gigapixel image for someone who doesn't seem to have access to govt funding or govt resources is pretty . . . crazy, ingenious, inventive, boring, scary and (perhaps most importantly) it just doesn't seem to be on the challenge topic. Thus, a 2 for effort.

:)

Kev

It is likely to be the first non-commercial, private person sort of non-scientific example of an image like this. Hope he gets a printer lined up...

Also interesting that he wrote his own software to deal with the stitching, although in terms of memory etc, you only really ever need to work on at most 9 images at a time until it comes to pulling the whole thing together - which after you've adjusted and tweaked the images, isn't very tough.

Message edited by author 2003-12-03 09:13:30.

kaycee

Olympus C-750UZ

12/03/2003 09:33:40 AM · #24

Perhaps I just don't understand what I'm looking at, but it seems to me that this image could not truly be called a "gigapixel" image unless each portion of the whole were photographed with a gigapixel ccd. I mean, I could take my 4mp camera and stitch together a series of photos, and it would be impressive (as his is) but I don't see how you come up with multiplying the size so dramatically. You'd come up with a huge image for sure, but the resolution would not be comparable to one taken by a gigapixel camera if there were such an animal.