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New York Skyline 360 Panorama: 20 Gigapixels (360gigapixels.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/interestingasfuck

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The camera captures so much data, that you can read street signs from the top of the building just by digitally zooming!

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[–] CrayonRosary 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This doesn't require a special camera. You use a normal or telephoto lens and take hundreds of photos then stitch them together with software.

[–] acceptable_pumpkin 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any software you recommend? Did this a while back off some great views, but the software side didn’t seem to work well. Microsoft had one, but if k recall, it relied on some technology that wasn’t updated.

I just couldn’t get it to work right.

[–] CrayonRosary 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've used that software you're talking about, and it's very basic.

I use PTGui, personally. I bought version 9 years ago, and haven't tried any of the new versions. v9 wasn't necessarily designed to make gigapixel panoramas, and newer versions might be better at it. I use v9 to make 360 panos from a small number of fisheye images, so it's a very different use case than gigapixel panos. Overall, though, the software is fantastic!

Looks like they have specific features for it now: https://ptgui.com/examples/creating_gigapixel_panoramas_with_a_robotic_panohead.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, that is a more accurate explanation of how they get such a large image.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sick! Reminds me of the sharpest ever view of the Andromeda galaxy. That image really shows the insane amount of stars just one galaxy contains.

[–] RGB3x3 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not entirely sure what going on here,but imagine you think you're safe from pictures because you're 30 stories up, then someone takes a 20 gigapixel image.