70-Gigapixel Photo of Budapest Offers a Great View
Supersized panoramic photos of cities are the flavor of the season. After Prague and Dubai, it’s the turn of Budapest to get a detailed online photo that you can zoom in and out of and play around with–almost like Google Earth.
The photo shot over four days has 70-gigapixels. If the finished picture is ever printed, it would make a a poster 156 meters (511 feet) long and 31 meters (101 feet) tall. The amount of paper it would take would cover two apartment blocks at least 10 floors tall.
To shoot the photo, two 25-megapixel Sony A900 cameras were fitted with a 400mm Minolta lens and 1.4 X teleconverters and placed on a robotic camera mount. 20,000 test images later, the file was processed to create a single interactive photo.
Check out the Budapest photo here. It’s a tad blurry and sometimes pixelated if you zoom in too much but still fun to play around with.
See Also:
- Gigapan Robotic Camera Rig Goes Pro
- World’s Largest Panoramic Photo Is the Size of 1200 Billboards …
- 18-Gigapixel Panorama Offers Breathtaking View of Prague
- Hands-On With the Gigapan Epic 100 Panorama Robot
Photo: 70 Billion Pixels Budapest
[via Engadget]
Eiffel In Dubai Sounds Crazy!
Drawing inspiration from the magnificent Eiffel Tower, the Eko is a futuristic housing high-rise for Zaabeel Park, City Center in Dubai. With stats like 24 floors, 8500 Square meters of Nano Solar, 350 palms, a bar, a library and a big exhibition hall; this humble living quarters of rich Arabs and their Harem will be the envy of every Eiffel-loving Parisian!
Designers: 10 Raisons Architects
Posted: November 10th, 2009
at 6:00am by Radhika Seth
Topics: 10 Raisons Architects, Architecture, Dubai, Eiffel Tower, Eko, Ekological, Zaabeel Park, building, paris, small
Tarzan’s Making His Reservations At This Frame Hotel [Architecture]
Finding a room service guy who doesn’t even blink if you’re running around in a loin cloth (or less) shouldn’t be tough in this Dubai hotel. The place already almost looks like a jungle on the inside.
With the walls constructed of dark, solar protected glass, the abundant plant life of this Villamoda Galleries design is clearly visible at the right angles and the neatly kept vertical gardens appear as if they’re part of the hotel’s very structure and are a stunning blend of nature and architecture. I just wish there were some vines to swing around from. [WAN]
Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 10:20pm by Rosa Golijan
Topics: Architecture, Design, Dubai, Frame hotel, Hotel, Trees, Villamoda Galleries, Villamoda Galleries frame hotel, frame
Titan the Robot dances, sings, scares the bejeezus out of us (video)
This plays out like the opening scene of an 80s sci-fi film: Eight foot tall robot appears in a shopping mall, sings “What a Wonderful World” and “My Way,” dances around a bit to a chorus of oohs and aahs from the audience, launches into a series of silly demo movements, and then… Well, we won’t spoil it for you. Let’s just say that at eight feet tall (and with tons of menace) we have to wonder if Titan the Robot could be stopped should some sort of cinematic “glitch” should cause him to “freak out” amongst the onlookers at Dubai’s GITEX 2009. Like most man-made disasters, this one starts innocently enough: with a show-stopping rendition of a Paul Anka tune. Curious? Peep it after the break. Just make sure you don’t get get close.
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Posted: October 22nd, 2009
at 1:15pm by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: Dubai, Gitex2009, RobotApocalypse, Titan, TitanTheRobot, animatronic, gitex 2009, robot apocalypse, titan the robot
Dubai’s Vertical Village Might Suck Up All Of the Sun’s Rays [Architecture]
Despite grumbling about economic woes taking a toll on Dubai construction projects, it seems that their Vertical Village is going full steam ahead. The question is, after it’s built, will there be any sun for the rest of us?
Designed as a residential, hotel and entertainment facility, the Vertical Village is absolutely blanketed in solar panels. In fact, the building is expected to earn a LEED Gold certification when it is completed. That distinction is difficult enough for a homeowner to obtain, much less a gigantic commercial structure. Each building is oriented to reduce the heat from sun exposure—quite the contrary to a massive bed of solar collectors on the south side of the building that automatically adjusts to the sun’s position for maximum efficiency. The village also features a solar roof that helps to transport energy and break the solar field up into more manageable segments.
It’s not enough to have all of the really cool buildings on the planet—now they want a monopoly on the sun. Damn you Dubai. [Graftlab via Ecofriend via Inhabitat]
Posted: October 8th, 2009
at 1:40pm by Sean Fallon
Topics: Architecture, Dubai, Green, Solar, Solar Power, solar panels, vertical village
