xkcd “Click and Drag” the biggest comic panel ever
Today’s xkcd comic, unless someone can convince me otherwise, now holds the record for the biggest comic panel ever. Fittingly, the strip is called “Click and drag” and you’ll have to do a LOT of it to read the entire thing.
At 165888 x 79872 pixels, or 1.3 terapixels, the image would fill the screens of 4212 iPads with retina displays in an 81 x 52 grid. The grayscale image is 12.3 gigabytes in size. If it was printed at a size big enough that you could see the people, it would cover a football end zone. And as you might expect in a Randall Munroe comic, there are little treasures to be discovered all over the place. I don’t want to spoil the fun, but yes, Waldo’s in there too.
Yes, there are people who have started stitching the full image together, but we’d like to warn you that the full image is not safe for work. Not that there are any naughty bits, but the full-size image is so large it will crash most computers if you try to open it.
Somewhere, Scott McCloud is smiling contentedly to himself, seeing that someone else has tried the infinite canvas. I wonder where Randall Munroe will float next…
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- Click and Drag (xkcd.com)
There goes my morning.
Not as beautiful, but for the record: there is a site with a upscaled image of the sun to its actual size! Where the original pixel of the 2MB image of the sun has been blown up to the size of approx. two times of Egypt: http://sizeofthesun.com/
Here’s a scaled stitched-together image that is small enough to load in browsers and on work computers:
http://www.wickedglitch.com/2012/09/full-low-res-image-spoiler-map-xkcds-click-and-drag/
Things are a little pixellated, but you can tell where the good stuff is and go find it in the actual comic.
just like google maps, pan and zoom.
http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/
Errrr… no. “tera-” means 1*10^12. Using your figures, I come up with 13,249,806,336 — or 13 gigapixels.