Some fool has decided to stitch 196 separate images together to make a gigapixel image of Bryce Canyon in Utah.
Let’s look at some of the stats:
- Final image dimensions: 40,784 x 26,800 pixels
- Number of pixels in final image: 1,093,011,200 (1.09 gigapixel)
- Final image file size: 2,068,654,055 bytes
- Number of source images: 196
- Number of pixels in source images: 1,233,125,376 (196 images * 3072*2048)
- Time required to capture component images: 13 minutes
- Time required to set control points: 2 hours
- Time required to optimize project: 2 days
- Time required to stitch project: 4 days
- Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalize image: 3 days
40,784 x 26,800 pixels… Put into perspective, your monitor is probably between 800 x 600 and 1,280 x 1,024 pixels…
So thats like 9 days work on one image thats so huge no-one will really appreciate it… Especially as it has more detail than the human eye could see if standing where the picture was taken.