This is a 40,000 megapixel, 280,000 x 140,000, 360-degree picture of the 868-year-old Strahov Monastery Library in Prague, Czech Republic. A lot of numbers, right? Here’s more: the gigantic picture is actually made up of 2947 different images that added up to 283GB and took over 111 hours to stich together.
It’s believed to be the world’s largest picture taken indoors and the detail is incredible. Like the other “world largest photos” you can zoom in and out, pan around and find things you never saw on first glance. Jeffrey Martin, the photographer, literally took days to take all the pictures and considerably longer to process them all.
This is awesome, but how much longer do we have to wait to be able to toss one of those remote controlled avatar helicopters into a room. Literally, throw it into the room and have it self level and hover like the darpa big dog, and then proceed to map the room like a flying kinect/ photosynth vaccuum bot. Then wirelessly transmit the 3D model to my laptop. I’m waiting patiently for this.
Jokemeister
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM….what, not in 3D…LOL
Sir
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 7:59 PMThis is awesome, but how much longer do we have to wait to be able to toss one of those remote controlled avatar helicopters into a room. Literally, throw it into the room and have it self level and hover like the darpa big dog, and then proceed to map the room like a flying kinect/ photosynth vaccuum bot. Then wirelessly transmit the 3D model to my laptop. I’m waiting patiently for this.