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Amazing Panoramas

By Wired Blogs July 31, 2006 Categories: Visual Design

Here's a trippy photo: Sydney, Australia at night.

40,000 pixels wide and 18,000 pixels tall (that 720 megapixels), made up of 169 individual photos shot over an hour-long period. The final image is 1.3 gigabytes in size. The detail is amazing, zoom in all the way and pan around — you'll be stunned by the level of sharpness. You can even make out the bottles of wine on the tables at the seaside restaurants.

The photographer, Scott Howard, used a piece of software called Autopano Pro to assemble the image. It seems pretty advanced; you just give it a string of images, and it figures out the alignment automatically, stitches the photos together and applies color correction. Scott claims that his panorama was assembled by Autopano in less than an hour. In fact, his Sydney photo is an excellent case study for the software and could very well be an advertisement for all I know. It also looks like Scott is using the Flash-powered Zoomify viewer for his images.

I suspect it's not an advertisement, but simply a brilliant shot of a beautiful city.

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