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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.”

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[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Guys you just have to look at the earring, if its a star Redd is trying to sell you a fake

[–] SharkyPants@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What a great job they did! This would have been a ton of work to develop the rig, stitch and normalize.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It really looks amazing

[–] microscope_man@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

We're going to get so many HQ copy memes

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

It’s a way to create a digital snapshot to preserve art even if the physical edition is lost. That’s important, in my opinion.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It allows to monitor the deterioration of paintings and to better understand potential risks. It's a massively helpful tool for preservation efforts.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infrared multispectral imaging would be interesting to see what is under the surface, if there are any pentimentos underneath.

[–] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone please ELI5, felt like I was reading the wrong language there.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“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.

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Don't know if you're trolling, but pentimenti are small changes or corrections artists do, while drawing/painting.

[–] Dmian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope they're able to scan more artwork in the future

[–] microscope_man@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I will scan the scream at the Munch museum in March 😱

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I kind of expected a ryzen die shot tbh

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anybody know if I can download this with Dezoomify or something?

[–] Tranus@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I doubt you want to. Its probably at least a terabyte.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nothing a little more jpg couldn't fix.

I doubt the one that they display in their website is a terabyte, because that would require a ton of traffic just to get the render in the browser for each visitor they get.

(I'm sure that isn't the full resolution one, but it still looks pretty good)

[–] Kyoyeou 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sometimes it's pretty cool living in the future.

[–] microscope_man@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[–] microscope_man@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

During the opening of the exhibition and release of the website!

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That's spectacular. It must be impressive seeing that much detail in person.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should create an iPad (and/or iPhone) app which shows the painting in "3D" by adjusting the 2D image according the viewing angle tracked by faceID cam

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This example https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/gyro-web/ demonstrates how a 3D view can be orientated by tilting your phone. It is implemented using web technology.

It uses the device gyroscope to detect rotation and tilting. This is frequently used in map / street view. No faceID or depth camera is required.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, using this, you have to always look straight to the phone and rotating it. This is bat user experience compared to the faceID solution, where you can move your head and the phone freely