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- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If this turns out to be the ultra-high-res version of Goatse, I'll be so upset...
- TheProfessional, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7For those wanting to view the image after it is done downloading, I suggest using Aperio's free ImageScope viewer (www.aperio.com). It is a program used for view extremely high resolution medical slides, but it works great at handling any large images. It only opens and caches the parts of the image you have viewed and you can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel.
- sens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5how about putting on a DVD, taking it to a print shop, and having the coolest hi-res photo ever as wallpaper on your biggest wall?
Anyone have any idea what that would cost? - TC-14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You've got to be kidding me
I'm not going to spend time downloading it since I'll never be able to actually open the file, you're gonna nead a heapload of RAM to view it. - capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In other news: Diggers duped into downloading worlds largest virus!
- xornor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1btw... the image contains a linux distribution embedded which will be installed after opening it in windows fax & image viewer ;-)
- kkaabboomm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://forum.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.php?showtopic=5186
"t has 10 GB after i have unzipped it"
someone back in dec downloaded it, unzipped it...at 10 gb. holy hell. seems like no one actually knows how to view the thing though... - tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok I figured it out...
Just download all the different PNG files. They're technically just slices of the larger, 11 gig image.
The PDF's at the top of the nasa page tell which PNG file corresponds to which slice of the larger image.
So theoretically, while you might not be able to open the 11 gig bin image, you should be able to create a blank 86400 x 43200 document in photoshop and paste the PNG files into it one at a time.
Photoshop will use hard drive swap space to handle it (because it's not having to handle compressed images). You can then save it off as a photoshop large format file (requires CS2, I think?).
So there ya go. - ownedbytheman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The smaller versions won't display for me saying there is an error in the jpg. Anyone else getting that:
The image “http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//7100/world.topo.bathy.200401.3x21600x21600.A2.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. - NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Downloading at 400kb/s & uploading at 200kb/s.
Should be a great image.. most images from NASA are :) - Beansprout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's no point downloading this - World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov) displays it by default, and you can choose from the 12 months of the year, too.
Here's a screenshot:
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/hotspots/view_hotspot.php?id=1629
Amazing stuff. - modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This might be a silly question, but what is a good method of viewing this for those of us who only have a gig of RAM?
- SuperMunchkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just wanna see a thumb of this so i can see what i'm about to download or miss. Anybody have one? The smaller JPGs all come up as broken images.
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the November one is http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=7110 3.0GB bigger :)
- hoowahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1at kinkos they have these huge ass printers..cost like 10 bucks for a square foot and they are great quality. Might be worth looking into if one can figure out how to size it down a bit just so they can open it on their machines. *shrug*
- TAGG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13732 mega pixels
- xpgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"dugg for principle"
Same here. Not even gonna attempt to open this 3gb image file on this pc. - WickedDrag0oN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1uhm wow... im gonna use it as my background...
- t3hj03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/8536/nomemory3zr.png
- skizatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do the math :) 86400 x 43200 pixels x 3 bytes per pixel (red, green, blue) = 11,197,440,000 bytes of memory [i]minimum[/i] required to open it and view the whole thing without thrashing your pagefile into extinction. That's about 10.4 GB. Plus whatever overhead your image viewing/editing software incurs for rendering and maybe compositing and whatnot.
My system only has 2 GB :( - tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Has anyone heard of a little thing called swap files?
Why can't the image viewers just use my hard drive space?
Sure, it'd be slow as all get out. But hey, it would work. - iTony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I doubt even the quad G5 could view this.
- Slugo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Connected to 82 seeds and 44 peers and hitting 1.5 Mbps...I love my Fios.... and I think I'll take it to Kinkos just to see the look on their face :)
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone know what format the 2.9gb image is in????
- Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow...... D'as a big image....
- keithmcd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got it to open in Photoshop. I opened it as photoshop raw with 86400x43200 and count of 1, 16bit pc.
you MUST make sure that you've got your scratch set to a drive with about 9gb of space as it'll use it all. When it does actually open (give it time), it's only part of the image, it's at 1% and it's in greyscale. I'm trying to figure out how to open it in color. - panzerfinder15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, so I hope this is helpful to everyone. I actually opened it with Photoshop CS1. Here is what I did. I renamed the file to a .raw. then opened using the "open as" command under file. I opened it as a Photoshop Raw document. It is a 3 channel document, so make sure you set it to a three channel mode when opening. I set the resolution to what the image is, and I set the channel count to 3 and the bit depth to 8. Hope this helps anyone. By the way, it won't crash your computer as long as you have a large paging file. Here are my specs. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with 1GB DDR400 RAM and a 250 GB HD. It took my computer almost 20 minutes to open. It is a beautiful picture and well worth it.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok, there is NO way any personal computer would be able to display a 3GB image without crashing.
unless maybe if you got the apple quadruple processor g5 with 8gb of ram with their highest end video card. but obviously youll need at least over 3 gigs of ram to display this. ..i have 512mb. :( - delhoume, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As the author of Vliv (http://vlivviewer.free.fr/vliv.htm) I have converted the
11 Gigabytes image to a multiresolution tiled tiff.
Vliv opens this on any machine. Zooming/Unzooming and Panning is very fast.
Final image is 2,793,806,814 bytes.
If you are intersted in having this image please contact me. - alexdowns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0scr3@min' f@st d0wnl0@d! 1 w0nd3r h0w m2ny sh33ts 0f p@p3r 1 w0uld n33d to print this 0ut?!
- Shizlak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I cannot get a program to attempt to open this. Aperio ImageScope wont open bin files. Photoshop CS 2's Open as raw asks for a bunch of settings i dont have. it wants width and height (which i have), Count (tried 1 and 3), interleaved (?), Depth (8 or 16 bit), Byte order (pc or mac), and size. Whenever i put in 86400 x 43200 for width and height (no matter what other setting i use) it says "Specified image is larger than file." if i put in something w x h that is MUCH smaller, it will open a scrambled image.
Does anyone know how to REALLY open it? - SevenForever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, still trying to open that .bin. Looks like I may need to get the PNG's.
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is there a program for the mac or a linux distro that runs on a PPC that will open this?
- Mexrocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0512 MB DDR RAM...
I'll dl it... but I don't want to risk opening it.... - ezkiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"well its true i didnt open it but im sure that 6 ghz of processing power, an x850xtpe 256mb, and a gig of ram can open this thing. btw, can the guy with 90% done seed for a while when he finishies?
pishi posted by pishi (1) "
Considering jpg is a compressed format which has to be decompressed into video ram to show up your going to need a hell of a lot more than a gb of ram to open this. - midorigin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do we get that one of Earth at night?
- trebe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how many mega pixels is that?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"he smaller versions won't display for me saying there is an error in the jpg. Anyone else getting that:
The image “http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//7100/world.topo.bathy.200401.3x21600x21600.A2.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors."
ownedbytheman:
DO NOT use your browser to open the files. download them to your hard drive and THEN open them. - beelz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dling now
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks cavalledor
http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//7100/world.topo.bathy.200401.3x5400x2700.png - tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok. I finished downloading it and am in the process of extracting it from the gzip file.
Man. How am I supposed to open a .bin file as an image? - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SuperMunchkin says "I mean, damn, at that resolution, i would expect it to provide better imagery than a lot of the stuff on Google Maps that's not in major areas."
Actually, the resolution of the "Blue Marble, Next Generation" data that this digg is about is only 500 meters per pixel. The *vast* majority of data on Google Maps is higher resolution than that. - steve_s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think its time to compare ram. 3ghz baby
- steve_s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cough i ment gigabytes. man its hard being this cool.
- merm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great Digg!! I'm getting the largest PNG file.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm going to help out seeding this. No way I can view this, even with 2GB of RAM.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0im gettiing ***** all speed on my 100mbit line :S common seed biatches
- NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To view the file, open Photoshop CS2 (Older versions wont work) and hit ctrl + shift + alt + o and open it as a Photoshop Raw image. Use the default settings and it'll open eventually.
- czack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok - zero diggs = front page?
I think that zero your seeing is the end of 720. Yeah, you view all 3 numbers as one, seven-hundred and twenty diggs. -
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