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Video: MacBook Pro controls 22 megapixel projected screen

Many people have gotten used to talking about “megapixels” due to the popularization of digital cameras, but few know what this really means: “megapixel” is nothing more than “a million pixels”. To calculate this, you must multiply the height with the width of the resolution of an image: a 2048 × 1536 file, for example, has a total of 3,145,728 pixels, that is, approximately 3.1 megapixels.

How about, then, a 2.33GHz MacBook Pro controlling a projected screen with more than 22 megapixels?

(youtube) http://www.youtube/watch?v=B6VV4wl0rh8 (/ youtube)

The “22 Megapixel Laptop” project by three students from the University of Troms, Norway. In practice, the notebook created 28 virtual displays, aligned and configured according to the wall of projectors in front of it. The window server itself is still capable of supporting up to 32 virtual displays.

Of course, controlling a 22MP screen (with 7168 Ă— 3072 pixels, to be more exact) requires absurd graphics processing power, so it didn't get that smooth. Despite this, all this flickering of the video was worsened by the capture of the camera; according to them, live it was much better.

Imagine, playing in such a business?

(via Low End Mac)