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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chooty malli" data-source="post: 7982111" data-attributes="member: 273036">Microsoft creates a one trillion pixel, 802 GB image of the night sky :<img src="http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/6043/terapixel497.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Look at the picture above. It is a toned-down, 500x500  pixel version of an iconic picture. Had we had the audacity (or the  facility!) to put up the full blown picture that this actually is, it  would have taken you a couple of years to load this page on your normal  broadband connection. One terapixels, yes, 1,000,000,000,000 pixels  displaying the sky in all its glory and taking up a whopping 802 GB of  disk space.A gigantic effort (literally!) by Microsoft, this picture of the night  sky is the largest and the clearest ever. Under the Terapixel project,  1791 pairs of complementary red-blue captures were stitched, thanks to  image data from telescopes in California and Australia collected under  the Digitized Sky Survey during the past 50 years.To know the extent of the huge-ness of this picture, gulp this - To view  it in all its glory (read pixels), you would need 500,000 High  Definition TVs in a grid. Even if you take the higher-DPI route of  printing, the photo would be the size of a soccer field.According to Microsoft, this is the recipe behind the Terapixel photo:Image data was computed, or digitized, from the plates that were created  directly from the telescopes. This raw data was processed by a computer  cluster using 512 computer cores (How many does your ‘ultimate  gaming-rig’ use? 4 huh?). According to Microsoft, this took about  half-a-day. Sounds deflated, if you ask us.The red and blue complementary pictures were then combined and the  pictures were then touched up to correct the variations in brightness,  colour saturation, noise and vignetting (darkening of corners). Three  hours. Impressive again. We bet those computers weren't running Vista.It took four hours then as the images were converted into the seamless panorama of beautiful stars.Source -Thinkdigit</blockquote>

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