The Largest Digital Photo

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.

Photo Shots: 1,145
Computed Data: 84 Gigabyte
Computed Pixels: 13,982,996,480
Color Depth: 16 bit per channel

Cropped Image Size: 8,604,431,000 (w. 96,679 x h. 89,000) pixel
Image Size before the final crop: 10,293,864,000 pixel (w. 103,560 x h. 99,400) pixel
Size on Hard Disk of the 3x16 bit final image: 51,625,586,000 byte

Size of Photographed Scene: 10.80 m x 9.94 m (35.43 ft x 32.61 ft), corresponding to 107.35 m² (1155.37 ft²).

True Scale Resolution: 227 dpi
Pixel Density: 80 pixel/mm²
Linear Pixel Density: 9 pixel/mm

Hard Disk space dedicated to 16 bit computing: 1.8 Terabyte
Ram: 16 Gigabyte
Processors: 4 x AMD Opteron(TM) 885 Dual Core 64 bit

Shooting on January 30, 2006
Shooting time: 13 hours
Computing time: 3 months
Final Image generated on June 15, 2006

Jesus Christ! [it's a lion, get in the car]

[AEton]

Because of the way the painting was centered, if you start out with the default view and zoom in -- all the way in -- you are treated to a sudden and rather unpleasant close-up of Jesus's crotch. On the cross.

Thanks a lot, Slashdot.

Good Idea

[dcapel]

Find one of the largest files on the Internet... Check.
Find a site with a large amount of people browsing it... Check.
Make a post interesting enough that people will look at it... Check.
Watch your victim's bandwidth bills skyrocket... Check
Smell the great smell of burning silicon... In Progress

Linking directly to one of the biggest files around on Slashdot.
Sheesh.

Lets just hope

[antifoidulus]

the goatse man doesn't learn of this technique....

Re:Jesus Christ! [it's a lion, get in the car]

[syousef]

It's all part of the promotion for the upcoming musical: Jesus Crotch Super Star.

Wait, is that...

[isnoop]

I think I found a naked lady sunbathing!

Re:Actually pretty cool

[Traf-O-Data-Hater]

Track 45 left.
clickclickclickclickclick
Stop.
Pull back, track right.
clickclickclickclick
Stop.
Give me hard copy right there.

1,145?

[Rik Sweeney]

Man, that'd make for a very boring slideshow round someone's house one night:

"OK, this next slide is Jesus' left eye. We're now only two slides away from the bridge of his nose..."

well, go ahead and tell us...

[misanthrope101]

you are treated to a sudden and rather unpleasant close-up of Jesus's crotch. On the cross.

Well, was He risen? I keep hearing yes, but I've always been too shy to check.

Re:Wow - worth checking out

[zaqattack911]

I have no idea what you just said, but since you used the term "quantum efficiency".. I have no choice but to believe you :)

Re:Wow - worth checking out

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"Where are our flying cars predicted 50 years ago? They should have been here 10 years ago already."

That's more of a driver problem than a hardware issue.