The idea of making photographs that are vastly more detailed than humans can perceive is fascinating. Max Lyons broke the gigapixel barrier by stitching together 196 six-megapixel images, and then later researchers in the Netherlands pushed it further by producing a 2.5 Gigapixel image
Now that gigapixel images exist, its only a matter of time before they are printed appropriately. Imagine a billboard sized print that had the same granularity of a high-quality magazine, but throughout the whole giant print. From a distance, it would appear like any other billboard, but as you go in for closer and closer inspection, you would find more and more detail.
What if the 2.5 gigapixel image taken by TNO was instead a photo of a massive, tightly-packed crowd? How many recognizable people would we be able to fit in a photo like that?
Just for estimation, let's say that it is possible to recognize a person with only a 40x60 image (2400 pixels) like the one below:
The 2.5 gigapixel image could fit 1,036,345 people. (2,487,227,305 / 2400)
One megaperson fits in a 2.5 gigapixel image!
I wonder if the entire population of Trinidad and Tobago would pose for a photo?