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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 22 Oct 2006 14:05:03
Message: <ehgbjn$g2o$1@chho.imagico.de>
I am pleased to announce that the 5 Gigapixel Image:

http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/

has been completely rendered now.  AFAIK it is at the moment the most 
detailed image generated using 3d rendering techniques.

Christoph

-- 
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 23 Oct 2006 03:23:05
Message: <453c6dd9@news.povray.org>
"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> schreef in bericht 
news:ehgbjn$g2o$1@chho.imagico.de...
>
> I am pleased to announce that the 5 Gigapixel Image:
>
> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/
>
> has been completely rendered now.  AFAIK it is at the moment the most 
> detailed image generated using 3d rendering techniques.
>

I am speechless, Christoph...

Thomas


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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 23 Oct 2006 05:27:33
Message: <453c8b05@news.povray.org>

ehgbjn$g2o$1@chho.imagico.de...
>
> I am pleased to announce that the 5 Gigapixel Image:
>
> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/
>
> has been completely rendered now.  AFAIK it is at the moment the most 
> detailed image generated using 3d rendering techniques.

Great stuff! It could be interesting to (ab)use the Google Maps API to 
display the images, like this guy did with his artwork 
http://www.microtyp.org/
See http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

G.


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From: Sebastian
Subject: Re: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 23 Oct 2006 06:05:23
Message: <453c93e3$1@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:00:23 +0200 Christoph Hormann wrote:

> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/

This is fantastic!

But 

http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/view.php?tile=67A_50

...
The tile you have selected has not yet been rendered.
...

Sebastian


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 23 Oct 2006 06:17:12
Message: <453c96a8$1@news.povray.org>
Sebastian schrieb:
> 
> But 
> 
> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/view.php?tile=67A_50
> 
> ...
> The tile you have selected has not yet been rendered.

Fixed, thanks for mentioning.

-- Christoph


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 23 Oct 2006 06:22:27
Message: <453c97e3$1@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran schrieb:
> 
> Great stuff! 

Thanks.

> It could be interesting to (ab)use the Google Maps API to 
> display the images, like this guy did with his artwork 
> http://www.microtyp.org/
> See http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

I thought about something like that.  This would however require 
significant web server ressources (I don't even want to try to imagine 
the machine power behind Google Maps).

-- Christoph


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From: Mike Williams
Subject: Re: [announce] The 5 gigapixel image has been completed
Date: 23 Oct 2006 06:54:53
Message: <2OZOMLAk1JPFFwgx@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Gilles Tran who wrote:
>

>ehgbjn$g2o$1@chho.imagico.de...
>>
>> I am pleased to announce that the 5 Gigapixel Image:
>>
>> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/
>>
>> has been completely rendered now.  AFAIK it is at the moment the most 
>> detailed image generated using 3d rendering techniques.
>
>Great stuff! It could be interesting to (ab)use the Google Maps API to 
>display the images, like this guy did with his artwork 
>http://www.microtyp.org/
>See http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

I've tried it. Only at the medium resolution range 
(like http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/tiles/99B_large.jpg)
where all the tiles exist.

There's a bit of a problem at the moment with the Google API when using
custom tiles running from slow image servers. The code was written to
use the fast Google tile servers and has a tendency to not wait quite
long enough for images from slower servers. Google did log it as a bug a
while ago, but it's not fixed yet. It causes some tiles to be omitted
from the render, leaving big grey holes.

I imagine that viewing the tiles this way might be a considerable drain
on earth.imagico.de, so I'll not publish it.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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