I've made a madnelbrot set generator in C and I've rendered a massive 100,000 square pixel image and its come out to be 30GBs big. My computer has 4GBs ram, how long should it take to load it? Thanks for the help.
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It is impossible to load an uncompressed 30GB bitmap with only 4GB of RAM.
There may be a program that exists, similar to a text editor that can view a portion of a file at once, that can stream and view a portion of this image without loading it in it's entirety. I don't know of any specifically though.
4I did something similar to this years ago, just checked and it was 7.5 gigapixels (yours is 10). Judging by what I wrote back then, it is possible to open such a large photo from within Photoshop, although mine created a 60GB temporary file, so you need some spare hard drive space.
I uplodaded it to a website dedicated to high resolution panoramas, although if you download similar software, it should hopefully work from your computer. Here's a link to the result I got, it's not the most ideal way of viewing a photo but it pretty much needs to be done for such large images -
Edit: Sorry, didn't quite realise how old the question was
