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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
> 
> 
> 
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