Google Art Project
Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project
Dive into brushstroke-level detail: On top of the 1,000+ other images, each of the 17 museums selected one artwork to be photographed in extraordinary detail using super high resolution or “gigapixel” photo-capturing technology. Each of these images contains around 7 billion pixels-that's that’s around 1,000 times more detailed than your average digital camera-and a specially-built “microscope view” uses Picasa to deliver these images at amazingly high resolution. You can zoom in to see Van Gogh’s famous brushwork or watch how previously hard to-see elements of an artwork suddenly become clear-such as the tiny Latin couplet which appears in Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Merchant Georg Gisze.”
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Dive into brushstroke-level detail: On top of the 1,000+ other images, each of the 17 museums selected one artwork to be photographed in extraordinary detail using super high resolution or “gigapixel” photo-capturing technology. Each of these images contains around 7 billion pixels-that's that’s around 1,000 times more detailed than your average digital camera-and a specially-built “microscope view” uses Picasa to deliver these images at amazingly high resolution. You can zoom in to see Van Gogh’s famous brushwork or watch how previously hard to-see elements of an artwork suddenly become clear-such as the tiny Latin couplet which appears in Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Merchant Georg Gisze.”
Crossposted from http://montuos.dreamwidth.org/686921.html ;
comments on original post. If you do not have a Dreamwidth ID, you can log in with OpenID using your LJ ID to read comments on protected posts.