Need to Kill Some Time?

[cegerer]

Click on this link:

http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm

Supposedly, there's a couple having sex somewhere in there? In any case, the resolution of this photo is scary.

[Overpaid Slacker]

I'd imagine that, given the area that image covers, there's a couple having sex in there somewhere. Not that it's a couple I'd wanna see....

Great scalability on the image, tho. Very impressive.

JP

[Moses]

I found this half-invisible man. Weird. I was reading some of the license plates on the cars and counting the spokes on bicycles. Amazing. But what happened to this guys torso?

[cstreit]

Since they probably made multiple passes of each area to get better zoom resolution, he was probably there one pass, gone the next.

[Overpaid Slacker]

I liked the theory, Chris, but there are people obviously in motion (on a bicycle, walking out of a building, etc.) that are pretty crystal clear who would've been blurred/distorted beyond recog. if there were multiple passes going on (whether on the v or h axis)...

JP

[Eric Coffey]

Here's the page with all the links explaining the photo & how it was created:

http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite.html?id=966

[woodman]

This is all I get when I click on the link to view the photo. What gives??

[Eric Coffey]

Hmmmm, maybe a Mozilla thang?

[island911]

COOL!

btw, Mozilla works it fine for me.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Leave it to the Dutch..

[rcecale]

Originally posted by woodman
This is all I get when I click on the link to view the photo. What gives??

Woodman, looks like you need to install Quicktime. It's a free download from Apple. It also comes as part of itunes.

Randy

[cowtown]

Originally posted by Moses
I found this half-invisible man. Weird. I was reading some of the license plates on the cars and counting the spokes on bicycles. Amazing. But what happened to this guys torso?

This is from their website:

The 2.5 gigapixel image is a composition of images rather than a single image. TNO developed a sophisticated approach to merge the many images - all 600 of them.
...
All 600 photos were taken over a period of 1 hour and 15 minutes. Taking a single photo and moving the camera to a new position took approximately seven seconds. Thanks to the long 'exposure time', some interesting artefacts are visible at the edges of the various photos. They include a parked car that seems to merge into a bus and a walking torso.

[cowtown]

Originally posted by woodman
This is all I get when I click on the link to view the photo. What gives??

Quicktime is trying to do the display, which doesn't work because it's a Flash animation.

If you go to Macromedia.com and install their Flash player, it will take over from Quicktime and it should work. I am viewing the picture in Firefox as well.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Very cool!

Works fine on Camino for OSX.

[golfnow]

I found the McDonalds

[island911]

I'll take a cheese-burger . . .and a large Orange-drink . . . A LARGE ORANGE-DRINK!

[smoak]

I feel like a perv looking in all the windows of all those freakin buildings, I am almost 1/3 completed on my scan and no couple seen "doing it."

[adamred]

That's one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet.....

[FastDave]

I scanned up and down left to right for about 25%.....nothing....