It’s poorly photoshopped too, imo. It looks like what it is - a composite of two disparate images, superimposed to give a sense of scale / positioning. Even if you could see in UV with the naked eye it would probably not look like this.
This image is more like a map that shows Russia and Alaska superimposed to compare relative size. It’s not realistic.
Those are the new Inside Macintosh series, published starting in 1992. SpInside Macintosh, the HyperCard stack from which the web page linked in this item was created, was produced from the first five volumes of the original Inside Macintosh series, published from 1985 to 1991.
As the Preface to Inside Macintosh: Overview (1992) explains:
The original Inside Macintosh library of books appeared in six volumes from
1985 to 1991. Those volumes each focused on a particular version of the
system software, sometimes prompted by the release of new hardware
configurations. Often, the later volumes of the original Inside Macintosh
described only new system software components or changes to existing
system software components.
The new Inside Macintosh books are intended to replace the original Inside
Macintosh books and to provide a more complete and more useful reference to
the Macintosh system software. The most obvious improvement in the new
books is that they are organized principally by topic. For example, the book
Inside Macintosh: Files contains virtually all the available information related to
files, including complete descriptions of the File Manager, the Standard File
Package, the Alias Manager, and the Disk Initialization Manager. Similarly,
the book Inside Macintosh: Text contains all information about handling text.
This topic-oriented organization of books makes it easier for you to find the
information you need. It also makes it easier for Apple to add books to the
Inside Macintosh suite as new technologies emerge in the years ahead.
This is a cool looking website, but I don't think I'd ever use their service without knowing the people behind it or even where their office is located. Also I believe without an imprint this site is not GDPR compliant.
The domain resolved for me in Chrome on macOS though!
I maintain a suite of opensource tools that do exactly that: download zoomable image tiles and stitch them together.
- dezoomify (https://dezoomify.ophir.dev) is a web application. It is super easy to use, but the final size of the image is limited by the browser. No browser can create gigapixel canvases.
- dezoomify-rs (https://lovasoa.github.io/dezoomify-rs/) is a command-line desktop application for Linux, MacOS, and Windows that does the same thing. It has no limitation (other than the one imposed by the file formats themselves) on the final image size.
- dezoomify-extension (https://lovasoa.github.io/dezoomify-extension/) is a browser extension to extract zoomable image URLs from webpages. It is less relevant for google arts and culture, where the zoomable image URL is the URL of the viewer page itself.
In the case of this image, I'm not sure the highest zoom level saved as a single PNG makes a lot of sense. No image viewer will accept to open a PNG file of this size. For JPEG, the format does not even allow images of that size.
Yes, as I wrote, the final size of the image is limited by the browser. See [1] for more details. The highest resolution version can only be downloaded by dezoomify-rs [2], not dezoomify.
I used Hugin to stitch a bunch of building site blueprints just last week. It was painful... just very unintuitive and hard to grasp. Very powerful software though. Just keep in mind it was built to stitch panorama photos, compensate for lens deformation, point of view, etc.
Stitching flatbed scans is not the best use case for Hugin and it shows.
huh. that’s an attack other browsers have fixed by using punycode. i wonder does safari have blacklist for homoglyphs but renders others as the intended glyph.
The whitelist for Safari on macOS is kept in a text file entitled IDNScriptWhiteList.txt, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources
ꑮ is from Yi script, which is obviously whitelisted.
The aurora was added to the following photo, taken on April 21, 2014: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140517.html