Google allows people to extreme zoom in on art

rotterdam - Google on Tuesday launched a new project: the Art Camera. A special team has created extreme close-ups of famous paintings, including in Dutch museums. The photos are one billion pixels. Therefore people can see details that would otherwise remain hidden to the naked eye. To the smallest speck of paint to it.

The art camera has made thousands of scans of each painting. Which are glued together by special software for the complete picture. A trip to the museum is no longer necessary.,, Let's say you want to see the six portraits of the Roulin family by Vincent Van Gogh close. You have to go to the Netherlands, Los Angeles and New York. Art Camera traveling for you, '' says Google.

Google on Tuesday presented the first thousand paintings. It involves works by Van Gogh, among others, Weissenbruchstraat and Berckheyde, but also Monet, Cézanne, and Titian. More than thirty paintings are scanned at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
  
    
     
      
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