Biggest SE4 Map Ever!

[Suicide Junkie]

See it at:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/committee

This map shows the entire known galaxy in the Play By Committee game ( http://invirtuo.cc/se4/index.php ), at sector-level resolution.
IE: You can see individual ships and planets!
The planets and warppoint names are all there, and fully legible.

The most incredible thing about it:
The file fits on a floppy disk!!!

Yes, only One Thousand kilobytes, less than one true megabyte!
Modem Users can now get a HUMOUNGOUS map with exquisite detail, in approximately 200 seconds!

Warning!
This innocent-looking, tiny little file contains an image 10,000 x 6500 pixels in size!
Yes, that's right, 65 million pixels, so if your screen is set to 32-bit color, you're looking at 250 megs of information!!!

Just listen to these rave reviews:
"It is big... it is cool what can be done with jpeg2000" - Greg
"Umm... Dunno, its just a big picture" - Fyron
"Attempting to open that with the recommended program made my work computer very, very unhappy." - Loser

The warning label is not just for show, folks. Be sure to have 250 megs of free space for windows to make a swap file, and expect to wait about a minute for it to fully display.

And, all from a 1 meg Jpeg2000 image file.
Wheee!

[ January 01, 2004, 01:54: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]