Largest digital image of the world available on the web: 8.6 Gigapixel!!!

The Inventory office – dept.Cultural Property of Diocese of Novara, and HAL9000 Srl from Novara, have produced a digital picture of 8,6 billion pixels showing the “Parete Gaudenziana”, a fresco made by the painter Gaudenzio Ferrari dated 1513, which can be seen in the partition of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in the convent of Varallo Sesia, diocese of Novara and Province of Vercelli. The image stands at the boundaries of the modern opportunities as for the final dimensions of the digital picture. The picture has been created joining electronically 1145 images, each 12,2 Megapixel and 16 bit per color channel. The 8,6 Gigapixel digital picture of the Parete Gaudenziana can be explored in detail on the site www.haltadefinizione.com Technical Info Photo Shots: 1.145 Computed Data: 84 GigaByte Computed Pixels: 13.982.996.480 Color Depth: 16 bit per channel Cropped Image Size: 8.604.431.000 (w. 96.679 x h. 89.000) pixel Image Size before the final crop: 10.293.864.000 pixel (w. 103.560 x h. 99.400) pixel Size on Hard Disk of the 3x16 bit final image: 51.625.586.000 byte Shooted Scene Size: 10,80 m x 9,94 m (35,43 ft x 32,61 ft) corresponding to 107,35 m2 (1155,37 sqr feet). True Scale Resolution: 227 dpi Pixel Density: 80 pixel/mm2 Linear Pixel Density: 9 pixel/mm Hard Disk space dedicated to 16 bit computing: 1,8 Terabyte Ram: 16 Gigabyte Processors: 4 x AMD Opteron™ 885 Dual Core 64 bit Shooting on January 30, 2006 Shooting time: 13 hours Computing time: 3 months Final Image generated on June 15, 2006