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:The mean radius of Jupiter is about 70x10^6 m, so its area is roughly 1.5x10^16 sq meters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter | :The mean radius of Jupiter is about 70x10^6 m, so its area is roughly 1.5x10^16 sq meters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter | ||
:That means the world's largest digital display would only provide a 7.8x10^-13 fraction of the area of Jupiter. | :That means the world's largest digital display would only provide a 7.8x10^-13 fraction of the area of Jupiter. | ||
β | :Going with NVIDIA's Titan V, which has Total Video Memory of 12288 MB, that would mean it could handle about | + | :Going with NVIDIA's Titan V, which has Total Video Memory of 12288 MB, that would mean it could handle about 98,000 black-and-white (1 bit) pixels. |
β | :Using the pixel density of the world's largest digital display (16.4 megapixels), scaling it up by its 12000 sq meters to the area of Jupiter (1.5x10^6 sq meters), that comes out to 2.1x10^19 1-bit pixels. So, we would somehow need about 2.1x10^ | + | :Using the pixel density of the world's largest digital display (16.4 megapixels), scaling it up by its 12000 sq meters to the area of Jupiter (1.5x10^6 sq meters), that comes out to 2.1x10^19 1-bit pixels. So, we would somehow need about 2.1x10^14 of those graphics cards working together to handle our Jupiter-sized display. |
:That display wouldn't even be at HD resolution, let alone 4K. Then again, if we use Apple's "Retina" designation that is dependent on reasonable viewing distance, that might be acceptable. [[User:DanShock|DanShock]] ([[User talk:DanShock|talk]]) 20:22, 14 April 2023 (UTC) | :That display wouldn't even be at HD resolution, let alone 4K. Then again, if we use Apple's "Retina" designation that is dependent on reasonable viewing distance, that might be acceptable. [[User:DanShock|DanShock]] ([[User talk:DanShock|talk]]) 20:22, 14 April 2023 (UTC) | ||