[PLUG-TALK] Today's (Weds Sept 19) XKCD: 13.25 gigapixels

[Ronald Chmara]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> Randal Munroe's XKCD #1110 "Click and Drag" has a javascript
> stitcied panel 165,888 by 79,872 pixels.  Avid readers are
> still downloading the 13.25 gigapixels.  This is unlikely to
> get made into a poster.  At 300dpi (with the stick figures
> 0.1 inch high), it would be almost a mile wide, and probably
> would blow the buffer on any graphics display program I know
> about.
>
> Mindboggling.  I wonder who is paying for his server bandwidth?

FWIW, most of the image has zero changing content... which makes it
amazingly easy to compress.

Cool comic though, especially the drag on the last panel, thanks for
the heads up!

-Ronabop