Gigapan - A Google/NASA/CMU spinout technology that includes a commercially available robotic imager, free stitcher, and web-based viewer.HD View - Microsoft's high resolution image viewer plug-in (Windows only - IE & Firefox).Powerwall - Computer technology for interactive gigapixel displays.In 2015 the 'Terabite', the world's first terapixel macro image, was released by GIGAmacro. Though currently rare, there have been a few instances such as the Microsoft Research Terapixel project for use on the Fulldome projection system, a composite of medical images by Aperio, and Google Earth's Landsat images viewable as a time-lapse are collectively considered over one terapixel. Ī gigamacro image is a gigapixel image which is a close-up or macro image.Ī terapixel image is an image composed of one trillion (10 12) pixels. Only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera. Current technology for creating such very high-resolution images usually involves either making digital image mosaics of many high-resolution digital photographs or using a film negative as large as 12' × 9' (30 cm × 23 cm) up to 18' × 9' (46 cm × 23 cm), which is then scanned with a high-end large-format film scanner with at least 3000 dpi resolution. A square image of 31,623 pixels in width and height is one gigapixel. A gigapixel rendering of a 2D fractal (~2.15 gigapixels).Ī gigapixel image is a digital image bitmap composed of one billion (10 9) pixels (picture elements), 1000 times the information captured by a 1 megapixel digital camera.

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