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A post on our sister site Gadget Lab caught my eye this morning -- [Resist the Megapixel Myth!][1] While I whole heartedly agree with that advice, it's hard to downplay the megapixel myth when the first one trillion pixel image has just been released.
Aperio, specialists in medical imaging, have rewritten the TIFF format slightly to circumvent the 4GB files size limit of TIFF images. The resulting format, [dubbed BigTiff][3], has been released to the public domain.
To showcase their breakthrough, the Aperio team has created [the world's first Terapixel image][2]. The image displays 255 pathology slides of breast tissue and can be seen on the Aperio site (the site appears to be bogged down at the moment, I couldn't get the image to load).
A one trillion pixel image is definitely impressive (and kudos to Aperio for releasing the new image format), but I still side with Gadget Lab -- even if you could have a terapixel camera, you don't need it.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/05/resist_the_mega.html "Resist the Megapixel Myth!"
[2]: http://images2.aperio.com/BigTIFF/BreastCancer225.tif/view.apml "Terapixel Image"
[3]: http://www.aperio.com/newsevents/BigTiffPR0507.asp "Aperio Implements BigTIFF, Donates Enhancements to Public Domain"
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