It took him months to come up with a file format that could accommodate such large amounts of data. The first candidate was TIFF, widely used in scientific applications and the visual effects industry, but the maximum format size is 4 gigabytes and cannot have any values, including length or width, greater than 2 to the 32nd power. This was not enough for Eggplant's mighty creation. Luckily, he found the perfect replacement for BigTIFF, which can process images in the terapixel range and is supposed to allow values up to 2 to the 64th power.
When you look at a photo of the world's largest penis, a few things immediately jump out at you. First of all, you'll probably notice that it lacks girth. Its dimensions are 23,760 x 4,294,620,000 pixels, and its length is more than 180 thousand times longer than its width. “This is, of course, very disproportionate,” Eggplant admitted.
“This is a real technical problem that I ran into,” he continued. “The BigTIFF format claims to allow pixels from 2 to the 64th power, but when I tried it, it broke. There must be some legacy code related to regular TIFF that only supports up to 2 to the 32nd power. I couldn't get past that, so I had to compress it.”
You will probably also notice that this penis does not have balls. “I needed to use as much image real estate as possible,” Eggplant said. “There is no white space, which means the width of the rod must be equal to the overall width of the image. It would have been weird to include testicles in those proportions. It just didn't quite feel right.”
After choosing the ideal image format, the next step was to work on the methodology for creating the actual image. He created a special algorithm that can reproduce the vein branching structure that we see in nature. The algorithm ensured that the vein pattern would be continuous and non-repetitive.
The next step was to figure out how to actually render the image. “I crashed my computer over a hundred times in the process,” he said. “The problem with images of this astronomical size is that they are extremely resource-intensive, and I was not working on the supercomputer that I used at NASA. Programs like Photoshop and even advanced tools like ImageMagick are not capable of creating images in the terapixel range.”
Since there are no tools on the market that can handle a dick of this size, Eggplant had to develop his own software to do it. He needed expert help, and, not wanting to reveal what he was creating, he went “undercover” on some Internet forums and groups, posing as a microbiologist or astronomer. “After receiving a few questions,” he said, “I went back to work and finally created a program that balanced the memory, compression, and disk usage required to create a terapixel image.”
The final image was created over a period of five weeks, during which time special Eggplant software created sections of the penis at a speed of 30 million pixels per second. Once that was done, he realized he had more than an NFT on his hands. Having successfully created what seemed to be the largest image ever created, he decided to contact the Guinness Book of Records organization.
