World’s largest digital photo

An Italian company HAL9000 has just published on their web site a digital photo that comes in on the scales at 8,6 gigapixels! The company affirms that it is the biggest digital photo that has ever been produced & available on the Net.

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It is a photo of ‘Parete Gaudenziana’ a fresque painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari in 1513 situated in the Sainte Mairie delle Grâce church – convent of Verralo Sesia in the italian province of Vercelli. The web site has published the photo with a Flash interface so that the viewer can explore the photo in detail. The image represents a surface area of 107,35 square metres and can be magnified up to x 180!

source PCinpact

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