60″ wide display prints were then produced and are currently sold on. Finally, the full image was completed, as shown interactively below, at only one third of the full resolution. Meanwhile, Erik worked diligently tracing routes over the extremely high resolution image. Boulder, Colo Sender Films then utilized sections of the image to help describe the Dawn Wall routes in their film, “The Dawn Wall”. A massive post-production stitching job then began with uber-intern Max Good, taking over 2 years of off-hours to finalize. The following day, we then shot the entire width of El Cap with 2,000 images to comprise the base image. ![]() Early one morning, we followed Erik and Roger Putnam , shooting 2,000 images of constant moves up the Nose route, with Erik and Roger finishing in 7 hours. In 2016, we hatched a plan to shoot El Cap in record-setting 228,000 pixel resolutionusing an 800mm Canon L prime with a robotic Rodeon head. ‘s Erik Sloan, a longtime valley xRez collaborator, author, and holder of over one hundred El Cap climbs, has long utilized our images to lay routes over in his climbing guidebooks. In addition to the interactive piece the New York Times has had very good coverage of the historic event, you can read more on it here and here. The NY Times interactive feature on it can be explored in full screen. About El Cap Founded in 2017, El Cap is one of the largest operators of indoor climbing facilities. The Dawn Wall on Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan is considered the most difficult rock climb in the world. In 2015, after integration of the gigapixel imaging with a large-scale laser scanning effort from Battista Matasci of the University of Lausanne, xRez Studio had the opportunity to contribute to the NY Times on a webGL interactive visualization of Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’s free climbing ascent of the “ Dawn Wall”. ![]() ![]() The unprecedented resolution and freely accessible online publishing of that work provided useful reference for the climbing community, academic research, and Yosemite search and rescue (YOSAR). That early work led to the 2008 Yosemite Extreme Imaging Project, where they orchestrated 70 photographers to document the sixteen miles of valley walls for NPS Geologist Greg Stock, shooting 10,000 images in 45 minutes. Initially, they used Yosemite as a test-bed subject for developing our early gigapixel imaging and terrain integration VFX techniques of large landscapes. That tells you the seriousness that anything could happen in a development vehicle. The giant red button is an electrical kill switch for BEV vehicles and an emergency fire suppression system for ICE vehicles. Yosemite Valley has always held fascination for Eric Hanson of Blueplanet VR and Greg Downing of Hyperacuity. It is a BIG NO-NO to take civilians in rides on test and development vehicles.
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