Believe it or not, this is the Burj Dubai. The very end of it, the top of its antenna tickling the sky. It’s just a tiny part of this brain-imploding 2.3-gigapixel photo of “>the largest skyscraper in the world.
Of course, Gizmodo reader Gerald Donovan didn’t send the photo itself, as it would have broken the entire internet. He created a video zooming in and out of his image in Photoshop. It’s like magic. Or an episode of CSI. I just can’t believe the level of detail in this photo. It’s stunning to see such a titanic structure in this way.
The largest skyscraper in the world will officially open in 13 days.
Louis Thorp
Monday, December 28, 2009 at 2:05 AMWow!!
Glenn Peters
Monday, December 28, 2009 at 5:34 PMby: Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear –
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
Jake
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 11:47 PMomg… is that a pimple lol
Jeremy Lichtman
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 4:31 AMAnyone know what kind of camera was used to take this photo?
John Isenberg
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 7:14 AMThe huge photo was almost certainly stitched together from a few hundred individual photos taken with a good digital point-and-shoot having a modest telephoto zoom lens. You can purchase the programmable pan/tilt platform to do this for a few hundred $US. Stitching software comes with the platform, or there are other commercially available programs (including Photoshop) that can do it as well. See http://www.gigapan.org/ for more info and a boatload of sample images.