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A nice piece of work comes from Halta Definizione who has compiled the world’s highest resolution photograph.  Notice it’s not the world’s largest photograph, as it only clocks in at 16 gigapixels, but that 16 billion pixels is focused entirely on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”.

So what is this picture portraying? Well, it wouldn’t be right if it wasn’t Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper“. The depth of the image is just mind boggling. You can zoom down to the smallest grain of paint and still not lose the clarity or the crispness of the image itself. It’s really amazing to zoom and pan around in search of those infamous details that we all know of since the movie “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown.

Hit their website for the interactive viewer.

via This Is The World’s Highest Resolution… | Bit Rebels.

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360 Cities is back with another record, this time for the World’s Largest indoor photo: An impressive 40 gigapixel image of the Strahov Library.

This image was created from 3,000 individual photos stitched together into a single image that is 280,000 x 140,000 pixels. That’s around 40 gigapixels, or 4000 megapixels. If you printed this photo it would be 23 meters (or 78 feet) long!

It really is beautiful, although I wish a book had been left open in the room so that you could read it at full-zoom.

World’s Largest indoor Photo: Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague – 40 Gigapixel 360º Panorama.

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Another entry into the Extreme Panoram space comes from the ‘Sevilla 111″ project that has an impressive 111-Gigapixel image up in their interactive viewer.  Combining an impressive 9,750 images, it contains some amazing details. You can zoom in to see individual people on the street, planes in the sky, and even individual leaves on trees.

This blows the earlier 70-Gigapixel Budapest out of the water, and makes the 45-Gigapixel Dubai a laughable endeavor. What city do you think is worthy of being the first Terapixel Panoram?  I would have to cast my vote for the lights of New York City or Tokyo.

Sevilla 111 Gigapixeles. Visita interactiva de Sevilla, Record mundial de fotogtafía panorámica en diciembre de 2010.

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Another record breaking panoram, this time 70 Billion Pixels, created by 360world combines the results of 2 Sony A900 cameras with 400mm Minolta lenses on robotic camera mounts shooting straight for two days.

After another two days of post-processing, they wound up with this amazing 200GB file and 15-meter wide print of the beautiful Budapest hillside.  Hit their site (it’s a bit slow at the moment) to browse the photo interactively.

70 Billion Pixels Budapest – The largest photo on Earth – created by 360world.eu.

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