Hirox, a leading provider of 3D digital microscope technology, has painstakingly created the world’s largest 3D scan, a super-detailed 108-gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting, “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”
https://www.hirox-europe.com/gigapixel/girl-with-a-pearl-earring/#TRPLINKPROCESSED
Hirox website that let’s you interact with their scan of the painting
Guys you just have to look at the earring, if its a star Redd is trying to sell you a fake
What a great job they did! This would have been a ton of work to develop the rig, stitch and normalize.
It really looks amazing
Thank you!
Wonderful! The mouth is simply fantastic. And you can clearly see that he draw most of the head shape with umber or a similar color. Really interesting.
I really hope they’re able to scan more artwork in the future
I will scan the scream at the Munch museum in March 😱
Infrared multispectral imaging would be interesting to see what is under the surface, if there are any pentimentos underneath.
Can someone please ELI5, felt like I was reading the wrong language there.
“Pentimentos” just refers to the five-sided breath mints widely known to have been Vermeer’s favorite. Often trace amounts will turn up under a microscope. It’s how they know it’s authentically his.
Don’t know if you’re trolling, but pentimenti are small changes or corrections artists do, while drawing/painting.
From an art science perspective, this is indeed interesting. I don’t think it’s particularly helpful, nor required, for appreciation of the subject matter. Very cool.
It allows to monitor the deterioration of paintings and to better understand potential risks. It’s a massively helpful tool for preservation efforts.
We’re going to get so many HQ copy memes
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Anybody know if I can download this with Dezoomify or something?
I doubt you want to. Its probably at least a terabyte.
Nothing a little more jpg couldn’t fix.
During the opening of the exhibition and release of the website!
That’s spectacular. It must be impressive seeing that much detail in person.
Did you have a look at the video too? https://youtu.be/j_MvpMlgfwI?si=5eCuFoSirK85LOND By the way, if you have any questions about this project, feel free to ask :)
