Random mumblings of an SSE Scott Howard's Weblog

After the huge success of my 720 megapixel photo of Sydney earlier in the year (http://blogs.sun.com/Doc/entry/720_megapixel_photo_of_sydney) I decided I needed to go bigger - and where better to do it than the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu in southern Peru.

The end result is a massive 1500 megapixel (that's 1.5 Gigapixel - 1.5 billion pixels!) image made from over 400 individual photos taken over the course of just over an hour.  Printed out it would be around 10 metres by 5 metres (at 150DPI),

The stiching was done using Autopano Pro and Smartblend on a dual processor Sun V40z, and took over 10 hours per render at full resolution.

To view the end result go to http://www.docbert.org/MP (or just click on the image below). It uses the Zoomify viewer so the bandwidth required to view and even zoom the image is minimal.