Gigapixel images are great, but navigating them on a regular sized display through a slow web browser isn’t such a great experience. This video shows how we navigate a 13.3 gigapixel image of Tromsø, Norway on a 22 megapixel display wall, using a custom, camera-based multi-touch interface and a custom system for high-performance navigation and visualization of high-resolution datasets.
The image was taken by photographer Eirik Helland Urke, who also operates the www.gigapix.no website. He kindly gave us access to his data so that we could present and view it on our display wall. The system for visualizing the high-resolution image is called WallScope. The system was created by Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, and incorporated with Daniel Stødle’s Interaction Spaces system for device- and touch-free interaction with display walls. All of this under the careful guidance and advise of Professor Otto J. Anshus.
You can read more about the system at http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/gigapix/
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March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
just amazing zoom …
just amazing zoom in
stringing photo’s together wow
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
very creative.
very creative.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
why? that it …
why? that it would all look exactly the same when you zoomed in.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I WANT ONE
I WANT ONE
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
i thought the easy …
i thought the easy part would be to calibrate all neighboring projectors. guess not.
still cool though! props.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I’d love to see a …
I’d love to see a tropical rainforest on this
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Good stuff.
And …
Good stuff.
And the BGM is amazing too,what song it is?
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
cool man
cool man
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Tromsø FTW
Tromsø FTW
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
you do it better
you do it better
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
its the new Iwall
its the new Iwall
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
That was 13.3 …
That was 13.3 gigasweet!!!
That Projector SUCKED thought!!!!
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
the projectors …
the projectors aren’t lined up correctly.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Navigating a 13.3 …
Navigating a 13.3 gigapixel image on a 22 megapixel display wall
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Maybe a social …
Maybe a social network could be like this, for selecting and communicating with online friends.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
that’d be 1 crazy – …
that’d be 1 crazy –wheres waldo?–lol
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I would like to …
I would like to make something like that but instead of viewing a city and the real world, it would view interact with, and arrange everything inside my mind. I could move, arrange, and navigate within all of my dreams, fantasies loves, fears, hatred, and happiness.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
brilliant!
brilliant!
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
wow…that picture …
wow…that picture is gonna be one huge file.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
apple eat ur heart …
apple eat ur heart out
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
13.3 gigapixel! I …
13.3 gigapixel! I would like to run Google Earth on this huge display
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Playing Touhou on …
Playing Touhou on that must be radical
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
@MorioKun1 How many …
@MorioKun1 How many p’s is this? 9000p’s!!!
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Well Done!!!
Well Done!!!