DJ Wiza schrieb:
> Leander wrote:
>   > 1) Lets say I have a target size of some 10thousand
>> pixels height and width, like 40000x30000 pixels.
> 
> 40000x30000 is 1.2 billion pixels.  As a 24-bit uncompressed bitmap, 
> that would take 3.6 gig of storage.
> 
> Certainly the largest image I'd ever come across.

Just visit 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html 
and download 86400x43200 RGB images with 3.7 billion pixels :-)

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