The incredible 360-degree panoramic photo of London that shows capital in unprecedented detail
By Daily Mail Science And Tech.
Last updated at 1:37 AM on 19th November 2010
See the image at 360cities.net/london.
It is a unique portrait of London, a dizzying panorama of our capital city captured in unparalleled detail.
A newly published 360-degree image of London takes the crown as the largest, highest-resolution panoramic photo in the world.
The image of London has a total resolution of 80 gigapixels, or 80 billion pixels.
It is so detailed that the photographers even had to censor one image which they described as ‘naughty’ - but they have not told users where the image was found or what it was.
The 80-gigapixel panoramic photo is so detailed that users can even zoom in on the clock face at Westminster to read the time almost 1.5 miles away
This new London gigapixel image, if printed at normal photographic resolution, would be 115 feet long and 56 feet high.
Shot by photographer Jeffrey Martin over a period of three days from the top of the Centre Point building at the crossroads of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, the image reveals the highest-resolution view of any city that has ever been captured.
From this vantage point - 36 stories up in the air - an astonishing number of landmarks, houses, skyscrapers, shops, offices, and streets are visible.
Countless people at street level are observable, as well as thousands of windows, many of which reveal glimpses of life inside. The faces of any identifiable children were also blurred too.
Previous attempts at world record gigapixels include a 26-gigapixel image of Paris, a 70-gigapixel image of Budapest, a 26-gigapixel image of Dresden, and Martin's previous record holder from 2009, an 18-gigapixel spherical image of Prague.
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