Rembrandt's The Night Watch at 44.8 Gigapixels

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If you scroll into the image you can see cracks, crevices, blackheads and all kinds of other things. šŸ™‚

http://hyper-resolution.org/view.ht...ijksmuseum/SK-C-5/SK-C-5_VIS_20-um_2019-12-21

"The 44.8 Gigapixel image was created for the Rijksmuseumā€™s conservation department, which is currently embarked upon the most exhaustive facelift The Night Watch has probably ever endured.

It enables the team of 12 to look right into the picture without using microscopes, in order to see what work needs to be done."

 
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Thatā€™s a lot of pixels, equivalent to about 1300 dpi covering a rather large (approx. 12x14 foot) painting.
 
The Night Watch was used as the inspiration for this outstanding announcement, below, over the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam following a years-long renovation. From 2013 this is about a minute and a half well worth watching, not to mention it must have been a whole lot of fun making.

 
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If you scroll into the image you can see cracks, crevices, blackheads and all kinds of other things.
I donā€™t think those spots are intended to be blackheads. They appear just to be pockmarks and indentations caused by deterioration over time.
 
I hope TVs could show that level of details some time. You could have a museum tour!
 
Thatā€™s a lot of pixels, equivalent to about 1300 dpi covering a rather large (approx. 12x14 foot) painting.
And they had to chop off the edges to fit it through the door !!
donā€™t think those spots are intended to be blackheads. They appear just to be pockmarks and indentations caused by deterioration over time.
Upon further investigation, and even though, supposedly ā€œit is probably down to aging white paint particles, the tops of which have broken off to reveal a dark innerā€, they sure look like very round blackheads scattered amongst many other beauty marks. There may also be pockmarks and indentations caused by deterioration over time. šŸ™‚
 
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