A 360-degree photo of London was published this week by a panoramic photographer Jeffrey Martin at 360cities.net takes the crown as the Largest Spherical Panoramic Photo in the World. It has a total resolution of 80 gigapixels, or 80 billion pixels and made from 7886 individual images.

The 7886 individual imagesof photos were stitched together as one single image on a powerful Fujitsu CELSIUS workstation, provided for the project by Fujitsu Technology Solutions. The computer comprises dual 6-core CPUs, 192GB of RAM, and a4GB graphics card.

Previous attempts at World Record Gigapixels include

• 70-gigapixel image ofBudapest,
• 26-gigapixel image of Paris,
• 26-gigapixel image of Dresden, and Martin’s previous record holder from 2009,
• 18-gigapixelspherical image of Prague.

How Big is this Photo

This new London gigapixel image, if printed at normal photographic resolution,would be 35 meters long and 17 meters tall (115 feet x 56 feet). From this vantage point – 36 stories up in the air – an astonishing number of landmarks, houses, skyscrapers, shops,offices, and streets are visible. Countless people at street level are observable, as well as thousands ofwindows, many of which reveal glimpses of life inside. In short, it is a portrait of London, the likes of whichhas never been made before.

Further information about the making of the image can be found at London World Record Panoramic Photo: See Big Ben, London Eye, Tower Bridge, and more than you can imagine. (Thanks, Jeffrey!)