M44 poster.

[S485122]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

A co-worker of mine has a high end ink jet printer (it cost him ~2.700 Euro) that can handle paper (or even canvas) in the neighborhood of 110-120 cm wide and any length needed. I'll ask him how much it would cost to print a poster of 1-point.

M44 would fit on a paper of 110 cm x 190 cm with 0,5 cm margins if printed in Arial monospaced font of 1,5 point size. Of course the last line would not be justified as I said earlier. One could print the definition of the number in red centered on the poster. Something like the attachment (the actual printout would have one page only and be in landscape, the text in red could be adapted at will, following the earlier suggestions about history of the Mersenne quest...)

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

A co-worker of mine has a high end ink jet printer (it cost him ~2.700 Euro) that can handle paper (or even canvas) in the neighborhood of 110-120 cm wide and any length needed. I'll ask him how much it would cost to print a poster of 1-point.

It cost him ~5.500 euro It can print on 110 wide paper and right to the edges.

Originally Posted by Jacob Visser

M44 would fit on a paper of 110 cm x 190 cm with 0,5 cm margins if printed in Arial monospaced font of 1,5 point size.

A hasty experiment with MF Word, leads me to think that it might be ~2,75 meters long if printed at 2 point (which I can make out on a test print on a laser).

My co-worker said that it might cost him ~9euro for black ink and he has glossy paper he offered to do one for me for around 25-30euro. I wonder how hard it would be to format it as portait and make it a banner....


hmm. A .tif picture using 0-255 grayscale per pixel....

[Maybeso]

Originally Posted by RichardCrandall

[snip]There is another new idea which is that PSI starts making silicon chips, and would offer an integrated museum-quality microscope display. One could go up to a billion digits that way, but of course such a "chip poster" would cost $100s.

How about a high quality microfiche poster with an integrated viewer? It could still be standard poster sized, with most of the space for all the explanatory information mentioned above.

[T.Rex]

Hello,
Can someone compute how many pixels are displayed on the M44 poster ?
I guess it is about 1 to 3 GigaPixels. Correct ?
Thanks,
Tony

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by T.Rex

Hello,
Can someone compute how many pixels are displayed on the M44 poster ?
I guess it is about 1 to 3 GigaPixels. Correct ?
Thanks,
Tony

If I'm not mistaken, the text on it would be vector, which would mean that there's not a clear definition of how many pixels it is. If you change the question to "how many pixels would you need of non-anti-aliased bitmap text (of the smallest readable size)" (or "by finding how many dpi would the printer have that could clearly print that text, and seeing how many in² the total thing is, how many dots/pixels is it" or something else would work as well), I think it could be answered.

[T.Rex]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

If you change the question to "...", I think it could be answered.

OK, thanks for redefining my question! Any idea of the answer ? Mr Crandall should know.
T.

[victor]

Originally Posted by S485122

M44 would fit on a paper of 110 cm x 190 cm with 0,5 cm margins if printed in Arial monospaced font of 1,5 point size. Of course the last line would not be justified as I said earlier. One could print the definition of the number in red centered on the poster. Something like the attachment (the actual printout would have one page only and be in landscape, the text in red could be adapted at will, following the earlier suggestions about history of the Mersenne quest...)

May I ask you what software you've been using for building such posters?

I'm currently trying to build a poster of the biggest perf.number (~19M digits), and all I could do was crashing repeteadly Illustrator or Photoshop

[S485122]

I think I used Word, I do not remember exactly it was quite some time ago.

Jacob

[victor]

Ok, thanks.

The main problem I'm experiencing with Word is that it doesn't support A0 format (84.1cm*118.9cm).

[rgiltrap]

Now that I'll probably be quite keen to but M45 (presuming the DC comes out right) I've had to think about this.

I like the idea of keeping 1 point as it creates a basically grey background but then colour the numbers in such a fashion that the picture of Marin Mersenne is portrayed (a bit like the toast portraits).

Also it should definitely come with a clear explanation at the bottom explaining what it is, when it was discovered etc.

I want one for the office with a magnifying glass attached for people to take a closer look.

[Jeff Gilchrist]

Oh that is a great idea, adding colour to make an image so it doesn't just look grey.