Stanford Memorial Church, High Resolution Images

Stanford's Memorial Church (known to undergraduates as memchu) is located in the center of the main quadrangle at Stanford University. This building has been photographed countless times, so there's nothing particularly special about these images, except that you can see every single tile in the mural/mosaic in the larger one.

Warning: these images are large. The 140MP image is a 13MB download, but it will require 400MB of memory to display.

Stanford Memorial Church, 20 megapixel image (5418x3612, 3.1MB)

(5 percent size thumbnail, click for full 20x larger image.)

Stanford Memorial Church 140 megapixel image (16965x8230, 14.2MB)

(5 percent thumbnail, click for full 20x larger image.)

Stanford Memorial Church at Night 83 megapixel image (11184x7456, 9.1MB)

(5 percent thumbnail, click for full 20x larger image.)

Stanford Memorial Church Mural/Mosaic Facade Details

Memorial Church Mural Facade Details, Stanford

Close up of the mural facade from the 20MP image.

Stanford Memorial Church Mural Facade details

Close up of the mural facade from the 140MP image.
Here you can see every single tile in the mosaic that makes up the mural on Memorial Church.

Stanford Memorial Church at Night, mural facade closeup

Close up of the mural facade from the 83MP image.
(Note this was taken at night at ISO 800, so it is a bit grainy.)

These images were made by taking multiple frames of Stanford's Memorial Church and stitching them together using the excellent (and completely automatic) Calico program from Kekus. The results are not perfect due to the parallax I introduced when taking the images, but they are remarkably good. The 20MP image was taken with a Canon PowerShot 400 point-and-shoot, and the larger ones with a Canon Digital Rebel XT SLR, with a 70-300 lens at 70mm or a 17-70mm lens at 70mm. The daytime images were taken without a tripod; the nighttime one with one.