170K X 300K pixel Image

[Keldrilh]

Hello,

I'm a new user of this forum, and I am not a computer expert either.

I would like to create a large image as a photomosaic of 14.159 pictures.

I calculated that, not to lose definition,
the final output file should be around: 170.000 pixels X 300.000 pixels

It will be a kind of Panoramic Photo, but it will be the mosaic of all the 14.159 single photographs.

My question is:
Which are the hardware requirements (Processor/RAM/Graphic Card) to manage such large scale image?

Thank you in advance for your answers,
Best Regards,
Luigi

[loosecanon]

Why?

Are you really going to print an 80 foot long print?

to print a high quality print 300 dpi is normally considered sufficient for normal viewing. Not to be confused with the printer dpi which is how smooth colours are formed with inkjets - hence say a printer using a setting of say 2400 dpi.

to print a 10 foot print one would need

300 dpi X 12 inches X 10ft = 36000 pixels

this is so when printed it can be viewed from say 18 inches.

your 300,000 pixels are for a 1000 X 600 inch print! 84ft X 50 ft - to be viewed from 18inches. And to produce such a print would require sheets to be pasted together as they would be imposssible to print as a single photo.

[Keldrilh]

Hi there,

Thanks for answering.

No, it's not for printing.

The Big Mosaic Image will be uploaded in a software called Maptiler.

And the output will be an Image with Google Map effect.

See here the example: www.amoremagikowall.com
The image used for the example is 30.000 pixel.

The image i want to create is 170.000 X 300.000 pixels

Which hardware will I need to handle such image?

[xpatUSA]

A member of the Sigma forum on DPReview mentions this a lot:

http://gigapan.com/

He puts images here:

http://www.panoramio.com/

Recently he mentioned his stuff:

"a Macbook Air with 4 gigs of RAM. 128 gig SS drive."

If that's of any help . . .

[Keldrilh]

Sounds cool. It doesn't seem that big requirement I expected...

Thanks for sharing!