Re: image viewer for gigapixels
Awesome! This program seems to work with big images. Much better than Preview, and more convenient than Photoshop used as a plain viewer. It seems to use rather modest amount of memory (compared to the image size... so I'm talking about 1 to 2GB memory space) and it also seems to use only single thread for decoding/scaling/antialiasing/etc processing. (It uses only one core and others are idling.). -- Ryuji Suzuki "Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content." (Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl, 1986) From: Gordon J Holtslander <gordon.holtslander@usask.ca> Subject: Re: image viewer for gigapixels Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:15:37 -0600 > Try Sequential > > http://www.sequentialx.com > > Its designed to view a collection of images - assumes you want to view a > collection of images in a folder. > > I don't know if it will support gigapixel images - but its opensource - no > cost to try it :) > > Gord > > On Saturday 16 August 2008 2:58:12 pm Ryuji Suzuki wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry, this has nothing to do with traditional photography, > > but rather handling of high quality scanned images. > > > > I have dozens of images in the range of 0.5 to 2 gigapixels > > range. All I want to do is to view the images, and switch > > between 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, ..., 1:32 magnification, and navigate > > within the image. I am perfectly fine with pre-making all > > preview sizes. > > > > Preview in Leopard works very poorly, and most other programs > > do not work at all... Photoshop works poorly, but that's an > > overkill for the purpose. Lightroom 2 hangs up with the small > > catalog containing a dozen gigapixel images. > > > > Is there a good tool fur such purpose? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ryuji > > > > -- > Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology > gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan > Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place > Fax 306 966-4461 Saskatoon, SK > http://homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 Canada S7N 5E2
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