Sunday October 10 2010 / Science & Technology - Art & Design
Paris 26 Gigapixels: Paris as you have never seen it before
Shot on September 8th, 2009 (after 16 months of waiting for the right weather), Paris 26 Gigapixels is the name of the biggest assembled panoramic image of the world. A gigapixel is 1 billion pixels! The image is a stitching of more than 2000 individual photos.
On the Paris 26 Gigapixels website, everyone can visit Paris and see all of the famous monuments of the French capital: the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, Beaubourg, Notre Dame de Paris, and many more. And that's to the incredible high-resolution of the image, you can zoom in and marvel at the smallest details.
Step 1: Setting up the equipment
Making this incredible image possible were: Arnaud Frich, one of the most famous panoramic photographers in France; Martin Loyer who travelled throughout the city taking photos that the main camera could not see; and Kolor, a young innovative French company that has become the reference in the image-stitching solutions.
The video above shows what is possible on the Paris 26 Gigapixels website, but it's much more fun to try it our for yourself.
Website http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html
Click to learn: how he did it by photographer Arnaud Frich learn more about the project and/or visit the project's Blog
Hopefully other cities will follow.
On the Paris 26 Gigapixels website, everyone can visit Paris and see all of the famous monuments of the French capital: the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, Beaubourg, Notre Dame de Paris, and many more. And that's to the incredible high-resolution of the image, you can zoom in and marvel at the smallest details.
Step 1: Setting up the equipment
Making this incredible image possible were: Arnaud Frich, one of the most famous panoramic photographers in France; Martin Loyer who travelled throughout the city taking photos that the main camera could not see; and Kolor, a young innovative French company that has become the reference in the image-stitching solutions.
The video above shows what is possible on the Paris 26 Gigapixels website, but it's much more fun to try it our for yourself.
Website http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html
Click to learn: how he did it by photographer Arnaud Frich learn more about the project and/or visit the project's Blog
Hopefully other cities will follow.