Google Art Project offers gigapixel images of art classics, ‘indoor’ Street View of museums

Google’s been hard at work over the past 18 months on something not many of us have been paying attention to lately: art . Specifically, the search giant has hooked up with 17 art museums around the world to offer tours of their internal galleries, using its familiar Street View tricycles , while also doing high-res images of 1,061 artworks that may be viewed on the newly launched Art Project web portal. Also there, you will find 17 special gigapixel images — 7,000-megapixel versions of each participating venue’s proudest possession. The resulting level of detail is nothing short of astounding and we’ve got videos of how it’s all done after the break. Continue reading Google Art Project offers gigapixel images of art classics, ‘indoor’ Street View of museums Google Art Project offers gigapixel images of art classics, ‘indoor’ Street View of museums originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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