On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:29:26 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>__/ [Big Bill] on Friday 10 February 2006 23:00 \__
>
>> On 10 Feb 2006 12:24:51 -0800, "Fritz M" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Speaking of maximum zoom, have you already seen /this/ image?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite600.html
>>>
>>>Holy Video Enhancement, Batman! I could just about count the nostril
>>>hairs on the woman taking a shower inside of the building on the far
>>>right.
>>>
>>>RFM
>>>http://www.cyclelicio.us/
>>
>> It is a remarkable picture. Staggering, in fact. Who needs CCTV? We
>> just need storage facilities for the moving video.
>>
>> BB
>
>It takes many hours to acquire such photos if I recall correctly. This might
>be less than ideal for real-time footage...
>
>The following was published a few days ago:
>
>http://www.news.wisc.edu/12105.html
>
>so you might be able to handle the data stream quickly enough some day in the
>future.
>
>Terabit image = 32 bits x 1,000,000,000,000 pixels = 4,000,000,000,000 bytes
>= 4 terabytes
>
>taking the square root, you can an idea about then vertical-horizontal
>dimensions
>
>then multiplying by 25 (frames) you get a perabyte to process every 10
>seconds. Where would you even store this thing?
>
>Roy
Look at what's happened with hard drives. Memory. It won't be long
before this kind of data storage and retrieval is commonplace.
BB
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