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Re:717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch by genewitch on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:14AM (#30070554)
I did a bit of looking around at 4k matrix hardware, and it's pricey. There's probably someone making 8k by now, so it's just a matter of paying the high cost. Or get 1:16 1080p or something.

Other than that, 4k HDR TVs are cheap. Obviously 4k is too few, but at least you can make it 75" for under $1000...

As far as animations go, ffmpeg can work miracles.

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Re:717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch by zamadatix on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:09PM (#30075494)
Apart from that needing to be a matrix of over 1200 4k TVs or over 300 8k TVs the problem here is opening and viewing the image not displaying it in full all at once. ffmpeg would run into the same RAM issues, the only approach to viewing such images is to split the image up into separate pieces and make multiple scale levels then feed it into a viewer that understands which pieces at which scale to load.
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