Google's new gigapixel camera sees every paint stroke in famous artwork

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Google's new gigapixel camera sees every paint stroke in famous artwork
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Cancel that trip to the Louvre. You'll never get closer to master art works than through Google's freakishly powerful, robotic Art Camera.

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Google's Cultural Institute is filled with hundreds of thousands of artifacts that you can view online, and about 200 of them are gigapixel images of famous works of art. There are, naturally, millions more of such artworks you can see in person museums around the world.

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Google is sending some museums this powerful new camera for free.

Image: Google


But **w, with its new robotic Art Camera, Google is automating the process of ingesting these works and putting them online, so you'll be able to see even more without leaving the house. Google has an**unced a new camera and the online availability of 1,000 new (https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/home?projectId=art-camera) gigapixel images on Tuesday via its official blog (https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/art-camera-cultural-institute.html). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/google-art-camera/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


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