Gigapan images of 2009 Geneva Motor Show
by John Neff on Mar 7th 2009 at 6:03PM 
What the hell is a gigapan image? It's an image used taking a robotic device that takes a bunch of little images and stitches them together to make one giant, high-resolution image. You may remember seeing the gigapan image of President Obama's inauguration speech back in January. That same technology was recently used by the folks at image engineers to take some interesting photos of the 2009 Geneva Motor Show this past week. If you're not part of the automotive press, you've probably never seen what a show floor looks like beyond the small windows we give you in our coverage of production vehicles and concepts that are unveiled there. These images, one of the show floor and one of the Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire, reveal an angle of the show that you've likely not seen before. We've also embedded a time lapse video of the action that takes place at the Geneva Motor Show after the jump. These three bits of media are a great way to bring our coverage of the 2009 Geneva Motor Show to a close. Hope you enjoyed it.
[Source: image engineers]
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abbas350 6:26PM (3/07/2009)
i love these things
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Sea Urchin 6:26PM (3/07/2009)
What is that white car on the picture?
Looks gorgeous.
Now the next big Auto Show will be NYC Auto Show, let's hope we will see something interesting that gets 40+ MPG, fun to drive, costs 17K-23K and has a great reliability, interior and more.
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Matthew 7:10PM (3/07/2009)
If we've seen the same car then it's a Renault Laguna Coupé.
Sea Urchin 8:26PM (3/07/2009)
Looks hot
KA 6:47PM (3/07/2009)
What's even better is their time-lapse video -- http://vimeo.com/3488553
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Rambo 6:50PM (3/07/2009)
Check out the bottom right-hand corner. It looks like Nissan design is "heading in new directions".
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Mobius_1 7:33PM (3/07/2009)
Isn't that gorgeous? :P
Lee 5:37AM (3/08/2009)
...not to mention the hovering torsos and body-less legs. Interesting shot though
Bobby 1:39AM (3/09/2009)
LoL .... space technology ftw in actually manage to create something uglier than the Qazana ....
JWRIGHT 7:11PM (3/07/2009)
I see what you did there
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Mobius_1 7:35PM (3/07/2009)
I see Dacia on the top, on one of the plaques!
And that's a cool auto show, definitely will try to go in the future.
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Mobius_1 8:52PM (3/07/2009)
And now I just need a Gigapan resolution monitor and set that as my desktop! :D
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Kitko 9:00AM (3/08/2009)
Otherwise know as gigapixel photography... has been around for about 10 years (first utilized scans of films/photos and then stiched them together) although the first digital gigapixel photo was created in only in 2004 in Deft, Netherlands.
more on that
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4022149.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigapixel_image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_photographs_in_the_world
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