Tim Cook wrote:
> Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
>> No.  you can already use that large images right now - your OS 
>> swapping and address space permitting.  You don't do this though 
>> because the performance loss makes it unfeasible. This isn't different 
>> with 'on-demand' reading of image data from disk (except parsing might 
>> be a bit faster in the latter case).
> 
> 
> No, I literally don't have any software that can read such a large 
> image.  ^^;  Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Photoshop, and so forth, can't read 
> images larger than a certain size

Actually GIMP should be able to deal with large images without problems 
with its tile cache:

http://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/tile_cache.html

(at least if it is built with large file support which is default with 
current versions i think).

And there are various other programs able to process large image files 
- one was mentioned in p.g. in reply to you:

Subject: Re: Callling all Earth renderers - Blue Marble "next generation"
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:41:30 EDT
From: PM 2Ring <nomail@nomail>
Newsgroups: povray.general

And as noted in

http://www.imagico.de/pov/earth_bm.html

GDAL is also predestinated for this - after adding an appropriate ppm 
header to the raw data:

P6
86400 43200
255

Finally the 500m images are also available in 21600x21600 tiles.

Christoph

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