World record 70 gigapixel panoramic image of Budapest
The goal was to break two records: to create the highest resolution image and the largest circular panorama.
Photo of the world's largest panoramic panorama here can be viewed or our readers can learn even more about the project carried out by the staff of 360 World.
About us:
A young company dedicated to designing 360world panoramic systems, developing three-dimensional applications and displaying them on the web, our team includes IT professionals, photographers, architectural visual designers, graphic designers, as well as cameramen and editors.
Where did the idea for the world record picture come from?
Panoramic photos are gaining in popularity around the world, giving people a special experience of being able to look around in places they haven’t physically reached, and they may never get to, while sitting in front of a computer. In gigapixel images, we can admire an environment or even a painting with unprecedented detail. At the beginning of 2010, we photographed a picture of Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry and a picture of József Rippl-Rónai in the Hungarian National Gallery, which were published in gigapixel resolution. The site has been viewed by tens of thousands over the course of a week, so we think many people are interested in the detail-rich image processing. As we want to promote our technologies both domestically and internationally, we wanted to take an awareness-raising step that will provide us with a professional challenge and an astonishing experience for our visitors. This is how the idea of creating the highest resolution circular panorama was born.
Photography:
To break the world record, the resolution of the camera should be as high as possible and the angle of view of the telephoto lens should be as small as possible. With a resolution of 900 megapixels, the Sony A25 camera seemed ideal for the task, and upon request, Sony provided us with the machine almost immediately, producing a 400-degree horizontal viewing angle per image with a 1,4mm Minolta lens and a 2,4X teleconverter. According to our preliminary calculations, a 60 gigapixel image requires 5040 photos, including overlapping 24 images in 210 rows, with a 360-degree horizontal and 60-degree vertical viewing angle. If it takes 4 seconds to take all the images (robot rotation and exposure), it is easy to calculate that it takes almost 6 hours to take all the images.
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