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717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

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565 points gaws | 1 comments | 25 Jan 22 00:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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biesnecker ◴[25 Jan 22 01:17 UTC] No.30066616[source]▶
Seeing Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum a decade or so ago totally changed my view of seeing things in a museum vs. seeing them online. I'm a child of the internet and had this view that seeing it on my screen was good enough, but wow is Night Watch incredible up close and in person. Overwhelming, almost. A totally different experience.

That said, this image is amazing, and lets you see a lot more detail than you can easily manage at the museum.

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bitexploder ◴[25 Jan 22 02:35 UTC] No.30067178[source]▶
Our brains just love the tactile. Knowing you are feet from the threads and paint of a master. That you can connect with this long dead artist so closely, in 3 dimensions. It’s very human.
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skhr0680 ◴[25 Jan 22 03:28 UTC] No.30067563[source]▶
Oil paintings look quite different depending on the angle you view them from too, that's something that I don't think can be recreated without some kind of VR / head tracking
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1. DonHopkins ◴[25 Jan 22 08:14 UTC] No.30069465[source]▶
Very true! See my previous comment on Paul Debevec's Light Stage and Rouen Revisited, and check out some of the vidoes of Paul Debevec talking about and demonstrating it -- he's great at explaining and showing how it works, and it's useful in many different ways, including AR/VR, video games, movie production, art appreciation, online museums, historical preservation, 3D portraits (they captured Obama!):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30069100

Scanning and Printing a 3D Portrait of President Barack Obama:

https://vgl.ict.usc.edu/Research/PresidentialPortrait/