The podcast casa clou - Home of Amzing People interviewed CEO Daniel Richter about his career. There are interesting insights into how the Gigapixel portal came into being and what difficulties there were. Of course, there is also a lot of personal information.

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Gigapixel GmbH was selected by the Erfurt Chamber of Crafts to represent the chamber district at the Central German Crafts Fair in Leipzig.

As a premiere, we will present our VR Gigapixel gallery to a broad public for the first time at a trade fair. The prototype application was developed in mid-2019 and initially shown to interested customers in order to gain an understanding of quality, size and viewing distance.

The VR Gigapixel Gallery was further developed for the fair in order to bring the topic of gigapixels closer to an audience in a more playful way.

Daniel is a volunteer mentor in Thuringia and helps young founders or simply people who deal with the topic of self-employment with questions and answers on this topic for free.

Photo credits: Sandro Jödicke from the Whitedesk agency for ThEx Mentoring / RKW Thüringen e.V.

For PICTAday 2018, professional picture providers and picture buyers met on April 19 in the old congress hall in Munich. We were also represented with a booth and can say that we were one of the highlights at the fair. Many of the professional picture buyers did not yet know that there is now a portal that offers high-resolution pictures. In this regard alone, the trade fair was a complete success for us.

Ever since we humans settled in huts and houses, we consciously design our living space. The architecture, interior design and lighting mood have a direct influence on wellbeing. Today we have apartments designed by interior designers, hang beautiful pictures on the wall, put flowers in the living room and adapt the decorations to the seasons. We try everything so that our living spaces also become living spaces.

But hospitals, medical practices or old people's homes in particular - places where the focus is on people's wellbeing and health - are rarely designed to be liveable.

Instead of dark rooms whose windows reveal a view of dreary concrete walls, the view could also wander over an alpine panorama, wander between the thick tree trunks of a green forest or lose oneself in the leafy branches of the treetops.

The NatureLux® motif light walls bring green oases into the middle of hospitals, waiting areas, operating theaters or hospital rooms. The panels consist of a combination of high-resolution images with light walls, which can be used for decorative as well as for lighting purposes. This creates a calming atmosphere for patients and caregivers alike.

This new room concept was presented for the first time at Medica 2017, the world's largest medical trade fair in Düsseldorf. NatureLux® was developed in cooperation with three companies: Gigapixel Ltd., the world's only operator of a photo database for extremely high-resolution images starting from 100 megapixels with images even in the multiple gigapixel range; Synantik GmbH, the supplier for the light panels; and Intergromed GmbH, who provide the wall system and take over sales in the health sector.

Recover faster in a healthy environment

The starting point for the development of NatureLux® is the holistic Healing Environment approach, which creates a connection between the structural environment design, the patient's condition and the costs for medical operations. Staying in nature, rooms illuminated by daylight or the view of a green landscape have positive effects on the patient's recovery. This reduces stress, prevents certain diseases (e.g. weather-related illnesses such as winter depression) and generally makes the stay more pleasant.

Regardless of location and weather, the NatureLux® motif light walls always offer a view of the green nature. The light intensity can be individually adjusted to different patient needs. In particular, patients in intensive care units who do not have a large radius of movement and who are often in rooms without daylight quickly lose track of the time of day. This has a negative impact on their recovery, sleep, and metabolic processes. The motif light walls are provided with an LED matrix that simulates the white color palette of daylight and can thus imitate a daylight rhythm. The patient's internal clock can be adjusted to a normal daily routine.

The motif walls also have a calming effect on the nursing staff. This creates a more pleasant working atmosphere and minimizes the risk of mistakes.

Razor-sharp, versatile, quick installation

The panels consist of a combination of glass, the picture motif and an LED matrix, the color temperature of which can be adjusted and comes very close to real daylight. Depending on requirements, the motif elements can be connected to suitable music, which can be controlled via Bluetooth.

Since rooms or corridors usually do not offer the possibility of moving far enough away from the photo motif for aesthetic enjoyment, it is particularly important for the motif light walls that they are razor sharp in the immediate vicinity. This is guaranteed by the high-resolution photo technology.

In the photo stock portal of Gigapixel Ltd. (http://large-format.photos) different nature motifs can be selected, which can be exchanged later. In the stock portal there are also pictures specifically for room design, which work in sections. For them, it is primarily not about the motif but about the feeling that the picture transports. A beautiful picture on the wall creates a whole sense of space.

The installation of NatureLux® by qualified personnel is quick and easy. The panels either replace the existing ceiling tiles and area lights or are built in modularly as wall systems. They are then put into operation using a simple plug & play principle.

Author: Lisa Partzsch (freelance journalist: lisa_partzsch@web.de)

The Large Format Stock Portal took part in the trade fair, Digitization in Crafts: Innovative. Sustainable. Qualified? "On November 3rd in Erfurt.

We presented our stock portal and our latest high-resolution photographs from London and Paris on our stock portal. In addition, we demonstrated to the numerous visitors to our booth what qualitative difference high-resolution photographs actually offer in print.

This attracted particular interest from manufacturers of stretch ceilings, interior architects and also painters who put photo wallpapers for their customers. We were also happy to have the opportunity to exchange ideas with other companies from the region, which were also represented at the fair, and to maintain existing contacts.

The Large Format Stock Portal presented its business concept and its vision for further growth to an audience of 300 people in the Kaisersaal in Erfurt as part of the 12th Thuringian Elevator Pitch. The 180-second pitch successfully convinced the jurors and was chosen as one of the five winners. The price of 2000 € was donated by the GRUENDEL law firm.

In addition, the large format stock portal was represented with an information booth on the supporting program of the elevator pitch. There it presented the Large Format Stock Portal. A large format print that was brought along also demonstrated the fascination of high-resolution photographs in print.

The Large Format Stock Portal, which is a product of Gigapixel Ltd. from Ilmenau, went online for the first time in April 2015. Only high-resolution photographs are offered for sale as files on the portal. All photographs have a minimum resolution of 100 megapixels. Such high-resolution photographs are used for interior decoration, for shop window advertising and the design of exhibition stands. The portal's customers therefore include marketing agencies, graphic designers, stand builders, photo wallpaper manufacturers and stretch ceiling manufacturers.

In addition to the high resolution of the images on the Large Format Stock, the portal is characterized by the ability to zoom into the images. This means that the images can be viewed in full size before purchasing. It is particularly interesting that the zoom function works in html5 and without Flash.

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