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The 1.09 Billion Pixel Photo

Mark Goldstein | Digital | December 3, 2003 | 0 Comments

Photographer Max Lyons has taken a 1 Gigapixel image of Bryce Canyon in the USA and posted it for your viewing pleasure. This enormous images is made up of 196 individual 6-megapixel photos, stitched together using PTAssembler.

“This page contains what I believe to be one of the highest resolution, most detailed stitched digital images ever created. It is the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite. The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels…a little more than one gigapixel. I have been unable to find any record of a higher resolution photographic (i.e. non-scientific) digital image that has been created without resizing a smaller, lower resolution image or using an interpolated image.”

Website: The 1.09 Billion Pixel Photo



 

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