Very Large Images Blog

This blog is dedicated to nothing in particular (but focuses on very large images, 3d fractals and anything I find interesting)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Estimating the dimension of Google Earth full resolution image

Above my home, the smallest detail I can spot on Google Earth for a pixel is about 10 cm. The Earth equatorial circumference is about 40 000...

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Download the NASA Blue Marble NG pyramidal TIFF

I know seeing is believing. Unless you actually see one gigapixel pyramidal image viewed by VLIV , you will not really understand how nice i...

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

External libraries and tools used to build VLIV

VLIV is written in pure C (about 3000 lines, not counting resource file). I am using numerous external libraries to load some image types, a...

Saturday, February 10, 2007

What is your largest image ?

The largest images I have on my machine, viewable by VLIV are 86400 x 43200 = 3.7 Gigapixels (It's the NASA Blue Marble NG) and 96512 x...

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Request for features

I have always tried to make VLIV as simple as possible, while keeping it as powerful as possible. So the number of features is quite limited...

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Frederic Delhoume: I am a software engineer with a passion for large images. I also enjoy 3D fractals

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