Saturday, May 12, 2007

A trillion pixel image

Tissue in a trillion pixels - Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

This was discussed on Buzz Out Loud this week, and I thought I'd share it. It's a trillion pixel image, so consider that your 56k warning!

The image contains 255 slides of breast tissue. They use a new file type called BigTIFF, since TIFF has a 4GB limit, this new file size is 143GB.

Here's the actual image.

Read more on the News.com Blog.

I think it's pretty sweet... it'll be nice when the average digital camera can shoot at that resolution.

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