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Sender:Bjørn K Nilssen
Date/Time:22-Oct-2010 15:39:38 +0000
Subject:Re: Re: What's a Gigapixel?

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På Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:18:13 +0200, skrev Isaac Garcia  
<#removed#>:

> No matter how you try to complicate it, 6000x3000 is 18 MP, it´s simple
> maths.
>
> Using the same car/road example, what you´re trying to do is to say that  
> a
> kilometer (same in land or water :^P ) varies in the quantity of meters  
> it
> "holds" depending on the pavement or how much a user "enjoys" it (the
> "representation").
>
> If I take a 3 MP image from my old Coolpix camera and interpolate to be 1
> GP, it IS a 1 GP image; regardless of quality. Even if I decide to make a
> solid white it STILL is a 1 GP image.
>
> It´s *simple math*, quality, proyections, aesthetics and what not have
> nothing to say in this matter.

So a cylindrical pano measuring 1000 x 1,000,000 px is a true Gigapixel  
pano then?
Simple math ? no matter what?

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