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marginalia_nu ◴[] No.30070494[source]
What's a good way of showing extremely high resolution images like this?

I did a few absolutely spectacular renders some years ago of a buddhabrot fractal, I don't remember the resolution but probably at least 100k x 100k, but after weeks of rendering I couldn't show it to anyone. I could only view it piecewise myself, as it didn't fit in RAM.

It's been a bit of a white whale for me.

I also have a high-res animated 4D rotation render that's half a dozen Gb, but can't be streamed online because compression algorithms absolutely massacre the details, and nobody wants to download files that big.

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Synaesthesia ◴[] No.30070870[source]
Ipad has a nice high red and bright screen I suppose.
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1. marginalia_nu ◴[] No.30071338[source]
I don't think you quite understand the resolution of these images. If you were to arrange a 25x25 grid of 4K displays, perhaps. But that's like the size of an apartment building. And the whole point is that there is mesmerizing detail even close up. Zooming out doesn't do it justice.