Da Vinci's Last Supper

[Bill_L]

The painting is now viewable online in ulta-high resolution - 16 billion pixels. This is 1,600 times the resolution of a ten megapixel camera. USA Today article about it is at

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2007-10-27-lastsupper_N.htm .

The website with the painting is at

http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/ .

You can control the resolution and examine the painting in detail. This is being done to protect the painting. Restrictions on visitors also reduce the number of viewers.

It would be a great idea to do this with the Mona Lisa and other paintings since most of us will never get to the Louvre and other museums. This also allows you to view the Last Supper while reading the part of the Da Vinci Code that discussed it.

[Randy & Betty in Pa]

Well what do you think of that.... White Castle Hamburgers!!!! I see the little boxes all over the table...

Best to all

R... The art critic that feels if it's true art it belongs hanging on the refrigerator door held on by magnets in Pa...

[aabram]

Well, I think this is what computers should be used for!!!!! :D (APART from this message board, that is :D )

[DaveM]

Most interesting--and I too would like to see other masterworks given a similar treatment. There's so much more depth to be discovered in this rendition than I've ever seen in a photograph. Would love to see it on a large hi-definition monitor.

[Dee]

I came across that yesterday and thought it was cool, but I ran out of patience waiting for the high res images to load. Perhaps I'll go at it again when I have more time (and more patience).

[gisli]

Zoom in and cracks you see....cracks I tell you and all dryed up and cracked hamburgers. (Love the druling fly on the wall way back behind on the wall........oh my if my eyes don´t deceive.....yes it really is.....there are two red horns on it´s head....it must be because of the hamburgers.)