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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Amazingly zoomable photograph

This is something really awesome – a panorama photograph of Obama’s Inaugural address made up of 220 images, and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. Taken by a photographer called David Bergman, It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images and the final TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

Use the controls to zoom and pan around the photo. You can also double click to zoom in and double click again to get even closer. The degree that you can zoom on to is AMAZING. You can see what is on Obama’s clipboard, in his hand, or in Bush’s glass. You can even see faces and expressions of each of the million people who attended. You can even zoom into the bandstand and read the music on the sheets!

See the top level:-

And here is the max zoom level


Go to the following link to see it :-

http://www.gigapan.org/

or

http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/


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