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Win/Mac: Image Browser Adds Blue Marble Picture
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| Posted on Monday, October 21
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Image Browser, currently at version 1.0b7, is designed to allow displaying huge pictures on standard computers. It comes with impressive NASA earth pictures for testing. Freeware, it is available for Mac and PC.
Image Browser was designed to allow "browsing" though a huge image (defined here as "several time your screen resolution") without the huge amount of RAM this usualy requires. It works by first dividing the picture in a lot of smaller files and by precalculating different zoom levels; this first step, the "preparation", is handled by a seperate program (included in the download). It can take a long time on slow computers, but it only needs to be done once per image. Once this is done, a second program, the ImageBrowser, will allow you to "browse" though the resulting smaller pictures as if they were still one huge picture.
Although it will work with any picture, this program was made with the NASA's Blue Marble pictures of the Earth in mind. You can download prepared version of four of them here, all at 8000*4000 pixels. New (20 october 2002): 43200*21600 picture available.
More info and download. |
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